At about 9 a.m. on February 29, 2008, on the corner of 12 October Avenue and Patria Street in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito - right at the doors of the US Embassy - a police squad stopped to check the documents of Russian citizen Konstantin Bratchikov.

Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (*according to the “Memory List”) At the beginning of the week, activists from the ERA group conducted an inspection of Kamenny Island to find out whether it was really becoming inaccessible to ordinary citizens.

At the end of May, Novaya Gazeta reported how a large group of St. Petersburg scientists turned to President Dmitry Medvedev, demanding to stop the implementation of the projects to create the Marine Facade and the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter “until all the necessary scientific research has been carried out and alternative options with the least environmental and social risks have been selected.” . Less than a couple of weeks passed before the first reaction appeared. St.

About 150 people gathered last night for a rally in Shchemilovka, a historic St. Petersburg town near the current Lomonosovskaya metro station. They were united by their protest against the creation of a shopping and entertainment complex on the site of a public garden and an ancient cemetery.

It is in this fragment of the title of the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture that Viktor Polishchuk is more right than ever: the new high-rise regulations for the northern capital have already been published and come into force.

Today is the last date when you can officially express your comments and objections regarding the hearings on the Okhta ODC, which took place with a huge scandal on June 27. True, all materials and notes in the margins will have to be brought to the administration of the Krasnogvardeisky district in person, or sent by mail or courier - but, again, on an individual basis (as the practice of the January hearings has already shown, officials flatly refuse to accept collective appeals).

From Tsar Peter to Captain Martus: how the legendary frigate was built Lately there has been a lot of talk about the recent naval symbol of St. Petersburg - the frigate “Standart”. But the article in Novaya Gazeta about the difficult fate of the famous sailing ship, as a former participant in its construction, especially excited me...