The Financial and Budgetary Policy Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region recommended that the regional parliament submit to the State Duma a draft federal law “On Amendments to Part One and Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation,” developed by the Ministry of Finance of the Omsk Region and the Ministry of State and Legal Development of the Omsk Region.

It seemed that it was impossible to forget this character in the television advertising of MMM JSC: Lenya Golubkov either danced with “just Maria” or convinced his brother that he was “not a freeloader, but a partner.” It seemed that the lessons of the MMM pyramid itself would remain unforgettable.

We can’t count how many times we were told about the good (and constantly changing for the better) attitude of St. Petersburg residents towards the Gazprom City tower, also known as the Okhta Center. True, they referred to the data of those sociologists who, to put it mildly, were not tainted by independence from Smolny and Gazprom. Quite the contrary.

As they say, patience and work... In the long-term catering epic on the corner of Svetlanovskaya Square and Engels Avenue, a final point has finally been made: there will be no BlinDonalts in the middle of Medvedev Square. The day before yesterday, Smolny in one fell swoop canceled all four, adopted one after another over the course of four years (already ridiculous!), resolutions on the design and construction of a restaurant instead of larches, birches and maples, protected by the ZNOP law.

An open letter from the artists of the Mikhailovsky Theater was recently sent to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It also went to many other addresses in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The editors of Novaya Gazeta sent official requests to the Chairman of the Smolny Culture Committee Anton Gubankov and the General Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman with a request to comment on the issues raised in the letter.

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”) The talk that in a city like St. Petersburg, the chief architect should be elected, have special powers and be the right hand of the governor, has been put to rest.

The fate of the high-rise buildings being built by the LEK company near the Novodevichy Convent will be decided no earlier than January 2009. In contrast to the inspector of the State Construction Supervision and Expertise Service (SGSNiE) of St. Petersburg, Viktor Gubenko, in whose fate the Imperial residential complex has already played its fatal role. Because of this prematurely started and temporarily suspended “construction”, a Gosstroynadzor employee lost his job.

This Tuesday, at a regular hearing, the creator of the “infernal machine,” Fyodor Kovalchuk, admitted to the jury that the motive for his attack on an American fast food restaurant on February 18 last year was a protest against the reaction of foreign (primarily, of course, American) media to Vladimir Putin’s Munich speech.