The last days before the New Year (when Novaya was no longer published) and the first days of the new year brought a whole series of news on Okhta topics. The Ministry of Culture sympathizes with the St. Petersburg opposition Finally, the Ministry of Culture received the long-awaited results of the prosecutor's audit from St. Petersburg.

By violating the law and calling for military service everyone who comes to hand, the military complicates life primarily for themselves The New Year begins for the Leningrad Military District with a multi-page official complaint, which Soldiers' Mothers sent to several authorities at once. Including the governor of St. Petersburg, the commander of the Leningrad Military District, the city prosecutor, the military prosecutor of the St.

Skyscrapers - a distinctive feature of developing countries In early January, the highest skyscraper in the world was solemnly opened in Dubai. Its height is 828 meters. In other words, this Dubaub is more than twice the exceeding our St. Petersburg, still not built a gas scraper on Okhta. The tiny united Arab Emirates, by the desire for pomp, completely went around the huge Russia. Tourists who want to see a curiosity shaking the sky will never go to Petersburg.

Irina Bogushevskaya began her career in musical performances at the Moscow State University student theater, and the experience of living on the stage of Song as History had a huge influence on her work. Critics, trying to catch what distinguishes this singer from others, called her style theatrical jazz, theatrical chanson, modern chanson - and indeed, on her records there are many songs that can become a mini-performance for three or four minutes.

If you believe in the popular wisdom (how you celebrate the New Year is how you will spend the whole year), in 2010, St. Petersburg residents will have to independently chart their own path, both in a purely utilitarian sense and in a philosophical sense - choosing between Asianness and European values.

Police control crowds of tourists Hasid on the New York subway In the last weeks of December, several holidays were celebrated in the United States - almost simultaneously. These are Kwanzaa (African-American holiday), Hanukkah (Jewish celebration), Christmas (Catholic), Eid (Muslim holiday) and, of course, New Year (for everyone except the Chinese).

New Year's tariff increase coincided with snow paralysis The beginning of 2010 (as well as the end of the previous year) will be remembered for a long time in the northern capital: snow paralysis of such a scale cannot be remembered even by citizens of a fairly respectable age. “I remember the blockade well,” says lawyer Yuri Shmidt.

Monuments of cultural heritage need state care - no one can argue with that. On the other hand, more and more often such concern turns into the appearance of an investor quick to innovative ideas, who strives to evict the previous owners and start a new construction project. In this case, you want the valuable object to be completely forgotten up there. How to find the golden mean: not to lose a building during demolition or from dilapidation - that is the question.

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”) Ingushetia.burg The fate of four relatives of the murdered Ingush oppositionist, owner of the Ingushetia.org website Maksharip Aushev, who disappeared in St. Petersburg on the eve of the January holidays, still remains unknown.