Due to multimillion-dollar wage debts for workers of the Pikalevo Alumina Refinery, the General Director of JSC BaselCement-Pikalevo, Anatoly Maslikov, was temporarily suspended from his position. This had no effect on the fate of the debt itself. It remains the same: not all employees of the enterprise have yet received money for March. On May 26, residents of the unemployed city of the Leningrad region reported to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the current situation was unbearable.

Smolny decided to poison insects during the International Economic Forum, and exactly where the St. Petersburg opposition planned a rally The abundance of insects and their intrusiveness, apparently, have tormented the government of St.

On the eve of City Day, motorists were warned that it would be difficult to drive through the center due to festive events. In particular, at 12 noon, with the participation of Patriarch Kirill, they were going to hold a religious procession from St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Synod building, for which it was planned to block St. Isaac's Square and the streets adjacent to it. Also, in connection with the arrival of the patriarch, traffic at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra was limited.

Writer and politician Eduard Limonov met with a Novaya correspondent during his last short visit to St. Petersburg. The meeting took place with some conspiratorial tricks: Limonov was constantly guarded by about a dozen young people - his supporters. Therefore, the conversation took place in a secluded corner of the basement cafe; They talked, as expected, about politics: about power, opposition, the global crisis and the paths of Russia.

The news that the famous science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky was hospitalized appeared on the list of the main St. Petersburg (and not only St. Petersburg) news on Tuesday. With reference to an employee of the duty service of the Federal Center for Heart, Blood and Endocrinology named after V. A. Almazov, it was reported that “Boris Natanovich feels satisfactory, the patient’s dynamics are positive, and there is hope that he will be discharged from the clinic in the near future.” .

Continuing the theme of providing the flowers of life with gardens and nurseries (see the beginning in No. 11), we will say right away: the city intends to return to the intended use of sold, leased, repurposed and otherwise wasted preschool institutions, and in the very near future. Another thing is that, both in absolute numbers and in percentage terms, these plans look extremely modest.

The St. Petersburg Social Revolutionaries, who performed well in the municipal elections on March 1, are losing one municipality after another. At first, almost all the deputies from the “fair” municipalities “Sennaya Okrug” and “Kolomna” (as well as some of the people’s representatives from the Admiralty Okrug) wrote statements of resignation from the party. And in the fall, most likely, the Social Revolutionaries will lose almost their last bastion - the Avtovo municipal council.

The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a St. Petersburg businessman St. Petersburg businessman Konstantin Bratchikov, twice acquitted by a jury, was only recently able to breathe freely. Six months after the repeated acquittal of the Moscow City Court, the last fears that the acquittal could be overturned disappeared. Despite protests from the prosecutor's office, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the acquittal of Bratchikov and his accomplice Stanislav Tyurin.

The police disrupted prayer in a Muslim prayer house according to plan and for the purpose of prevention A special operation by security forces in the Tajik-Afghan mosque in Apraksin Dvor, suddenly launched during prayer, resulted in the detention of several dozen Muslims. Some of the believers complained that during the search and personal search they were beaten, and in addition, they were deprived of money, mobile phones and halal meat.

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 former and current leaders of the KGIOP never came to a consensus about what buildings were climbed above the General Headquarters and when exactly.

The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Blogs, live magazines, social networks, just personal pages are sometimes ahead of entire media portals in terms of traffic. Therefore, following the journalistic professional competition, the organizing committee of the regatta announces a competition for the best publication dedicated to the international regatta of training sailing ships THE TALL SHIPS RACES 2009 and in the segment of Internet users.