Even before the rally began, the entire territory around the hill near the blocked church was cordoned off by police outfits. The citizens hurrying to the event, especially for young people, selectively checked the documents on the approaches.

In the morning On Sunday, around nine in the morning, residents of the village of Trubnikov Bor in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region were frightened by a loud explosion. Local residents were seriously alarmed. Some of them even managed to think about starting hostilities. In fact, in a village not far from the Voskhod state farm, the Novgorod-Petersburg gas pipeline exploded. The pipe (one meter in diameter) belongs to Gazprom.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion (according to WBA) Nikolai Valuev lost his fight with St. Petersburg Themis. The Kalininsky District Magistrate Court found the world-famous boxer guilty of causing minor harm to health out of a sense of personal hostility. Valuev’s victim is an elderly security guard at the Spartak sports complex, Yuri Sergeev. The World Court sentenced the boxer to a fine of 30 thousand rubles and to pay compensation to Mr. Sergeev in the amount of 100 thousand rubles.

A protest rally against the construction of a steel rolling plant took place in the city of Otradnoye. Last Saturday, January 12, he gathered about 500 people in the square. Residents of Otradny, located in the Kirov district of the Leningrad region, learned about the planned construction only last fall, although conversations about the plant had been going on in the local administration for two years.

Officially From January of this year, Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg will no longer appear in newsstands in the Leningrad region. The reason is the refusal of the largest regional press distributors “Lenoblpechat” and Nevaoblpechat” to sell our newspaper, explained by “lack of commercial interest.” Meanwhile, as regional readers told Novaya, the publication is popular in the region, which is why it is always difficult to buy it at a kiosk. Now it will not only be difficult, but impossible.

Novaya has already written about the unique understanding of Russian legislation by employees of the St. Petersburg Veterinary Department. This is confirmed by the results of an audit of his activities by the Chamber of Control and Accounts of the Legislative Assembly of the city, as well as a criminal case on the facts of abuse of power and misappropriation of budget funds, initiated against the head of the city veterinary station and its chief accountant.

Petersburg Few people know that the Okhta Center already exists. It seems that even Gazprom itself knows nothing about this, although the company’s symbol - a tongue of flame - flaunts on this giant tower, marking the victory of sovereign democracy over all sorts of dissenters. What’s even more intriguing is that the tower was erected in 1982, long before Gazprom itself was born. And it reaches a height of only 170 meters - a bit small by today’s standards.

Everyone with flowers, let's go! Trials on the last March of Dissent have resumed in St. Petersburg courts Co-chair of the human rights organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg” Ella Polyakova was fined 500 rubles for “participating in an unauthorized rally” (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) on the morning of November 25 on Mayakovsky Street near the office of the St. Petersburg “Yabloko”.

The beginning of the year is the best time for prophecies and predictions. On this occasion, Novaya asked the famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky to share his forecasts and concerns. — Boris Natanovich, literally in a year the country has changed beyond recognition. Mass sycophancy towards the president, equating the opposition with the enemies of Russia, brutal dispersal of protests, “zaputinists”, “bears”, loyal weavers and fawning academicians... What is happening?

“It’s okay,” they say at KGIOP An ancient porphyry vase located at the southern gate of the Summer Garden cracked and then split into two parts. The St. Petersburg media reported about the crack on Saturday, but apparently no timely measures were taken to save the monument. Moreover, as the KGIOP told reporters from the REGNUM news agency, “the crack does not pose any danger.” We quote verbatim: “Nothing bad is happening, it’s a microcrack.