The already enormous scandal surrounding the open letter in defense of the historical center of the northern capital is growing. Every day brings new amazing details, shocking for some, causing laughter and/or tears for others, or even a gag reflex. Some are cautious and try to sit on two chairs, some openly bend over backwards in front of Smolny, some make no comments at all... How to be popular with the people and pleasing to officials On the ruins of Petrozavod.

Will the daughter of Vice-Governor Alexander Polukeev build an underground parking lot on the site of the park? The construction of the next underground parking may take place in the courtyard of house 25 on Frunze Street - inside a quiet and green quarter, one of the most convenient in the Moskovsky district, located near Moskovsky Prospekt and the Park Pobedy metro station.

But the Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, in the recent past a prominent St. Petersburg official Ivan Uralov, as Novaya managed to find out, is not going to take back his autograph under the resonant letter. At least for now. Directive without first name - I was told that I should once again carefully look at the text of the appeal that I signed. I looked and found that the text was adequate to my ideas,” Ivan Grigorievich comments on the situation.

It was hardly possible to cause more damage to one’s reputation than was done by the honorary citizens of St. Petersburg, who not only renounced their signatures on the appeal in defense of the historical center of the city, but also publicly asked for forgiveness from the governor for this free-thinking act.

Veterans of the siege of Leningrad composed an appeal to the President of Russia. They don’t ask for anything - they just talk about how the blockade grams were replaced by Putin’s kopecks. This is not something that should have been discussed on the eve of May 9th. But when veterans, war participants and blockade survivors put cheap caramel, butter and black bread on the table as a treat for Victory Day, the conversation involuntarily turns not to the heroic past.