Tatyana Tolstaya, Moscow, writer, TV presenter: The fate of St. Petersburg was decided in less than half an hour Eleven of the fifteen members of the commission on land use and development of St. Petersburg on Thursday voted to allow the city government to allow the deviation from the maximum parameters of the permitted height of construction for the Okhta Center. Three voted against, one KZZ member did not come to the meeting.

Maxim Kozyrev in the Pikalevo hospital - May 2009 A three-year-old child died due to a hot water outage in Pikalevo “I am writing, and my heart is breaking from tears, pain and indescribable melancholy... Please do not leave my letter unattended, this concerns my baby, my only child...

33-year-old Zorikto Dorzhiev, a graduate of the Buryat Republican School of Culture and then the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, is a hereditary artist. In the work of a participant in numerous exhibitions (both in Russia and in Europe, the USA, in Taiwan), and now a personal exhibition in the Marble Palace, there were direct references to the “Mona Lisa” (“La Gioconda-Khatun”), “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (“Girl with a Royal Earring”), “Danae” (with paintings by Klimt).

The high-profile litigation “Citizens vs. Gosstroynadzor,” which has been ongoing since March, took an unexpected turn. Despite the fact that the process lost in the first instance is by no means over (a meeting of the City Court panel on this case will take place in early October), angry residents, without waiting for a new stage of the trial, complained to the very top about the all-powerful SSNE Service and its chief Alexander Ort.