The executive branch expects to reduce the city's green areas by 250 hectares “On the land reserve for the development of the construction complex of St. Petersburg” - this is exactly the interesting topic that was discussed on Thursday at the Legislative Assembly’s commission on urban management, urban planning and land issues.

The expert organization has received a foreground role - the main players remain in the background Maiden memory of the governor Valentina Matvienko spoke about the need to improve the status of the Urban Planning Council last summer - at the peak of the scandal that erupted around the construction of the new stock exchange building, which disfigured the classic panoramas of St. Petersburg.

The Russian authorities have been trying for a long time to understand what kind of crisis we have actually found ourselves in. Last fall, Vladimir Putin was not at all ready to admit the existence of a crisis in the economy (although it is interesting that the more perspicacious Dmitry Medvedev immediately began to use this terrible word). Over time, the head of the Russian government, naturally, was forced to take a more sober look at things.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the St. Petersburg rock band “Television”, which in the eighties was one of the five most famous rock and roll groups in the USSR along with “Zoo”, “Aquarium”, “Kino”, “Alice”.

Immediately after the publication of material in the last issue of Novaya about the activities of the St. Petersburg ombudsman, a group of readers contacted the editor. Elderly St. Petersburg residents very much asked to add their sad stories to the list of good deeds and merits of Igor Mikhailov. And at the same time they announced that, together with like-minded people, they intend to organize a protest against the inaction of the institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in St.

The St. Petersburg Union of Journalists is an organization whose board is almost 80 percent consists of officials. Moreover, not only from the so -called officials from journalism - the chief editors and directors of the media, but also the government nomenclature of the city and the region. Perhaps it is precisely such a composition that the union dictates the style of work, far from the journalistic freemen in general.

Except for one - a rally on Pionerskaya Square in St. Petersburg on April 15, which is now the only hope for the laid-off and fired workers of the three shut down Pikalevo factories. People did not risk disobeying officials.

St. Petersburg courts continue to consider complaints about the results of the municipal elections on March 1. It is believed that the disputed ballot papers were welded in the basement by a plumber. In the Petrodvortsovo District Court, United Russia member Vladimir Pakhomov decided to abandon his claim against the election commission of the Strelna municipality. The situation there is unique - the representative of the party in power lacked several votes to become a deputy.