On August 21, the St. Petersburg public intends to remember the events of 1991. And as if in mockery of the past victory, the current authorities prohibit even holding a memorial rally at the Mariinsky Palace, which has become the St. Petersburg symbol of resistance to the State Emergency Committee.

The story of the demolition of an allegedly unsafe historical building a stone's throw from Smolny, at 26 Degtyarny Lane, has entered a decisive phase. In fact, according to the letter of the documents, there should not have been a trace left of the house built in the early 20th century, which was once supervised by German Gref himself, promising to preserve and put it in order.

The reason for a new scandal in St. Petersburg was provided, without knowing it, by the ex-president of Russia. This week, the media received a photograph of a memorial plaque in Staraya Ladoga (Volkhov district of the Leningrad region), with which local authorities perpetuated the memory of Vladimir Putin’s visit and the meeting he held here in the summer of 2003. However, it turned out that the law prohibits installing such signs ahead of schedule.

Russia can hardly be called a country of knights - at least in the literal sense of the word. However, despite such historical injustice, we still got one real medieval knight's castle - in Vyborg. People interested in knightly themes could not pass by such a pearl: in 2008, Russian reenactors held the 13th annual festival in the castle, with music, armor, plumes, equestrian tournaments and walking buhurts. The thirteenth - and so far the last.

This Tuesday, in the City Court of St. Petersburg, jurors began to consider the story of the murder of Olympic champion Dmitry Nelyubin. The Olympic champion was confused with a fascist militant and killed Nelyubin was mortally wounded on New Year's Eve from 2004 to 2005 with a single blow of a knife on Lev Tolstoy Street, where he went out with his friend Igor Smirnov and his wife Victoria. The suspects were detained only several years later.

Siege protesters calling to save the city from the Gazprom tower are accused of an “unauthorized action” Lyudmila Elyashova Security zone of love Lyudmila Leonidovna Elyashova is 87 years old. She has three great-grandchildren. Writer, Candidate of Economic Sciences, teacher - has been associated with the Polytechnic Institute for almost 30 years.