For ten years now, Nikolai Alekseev has been the conductor of the Honored Ensemble of Russia, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In the 2010/2011 season, the conductor included in his extensive program the symphonies of Schubert and Mahler, Messiaen and Slonimsky, Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstasy" and Debussy's "The Sea", violin concertos by Berg and Korngold (first performance in St. Petersburg).

At a recent workshop for representatives of regional public chambers and NGOs of the Northwestern Federal District, I did not receive a clear answer to the question: how effective are the decisions of the “chamber men”. The answers were different, but the speakers, one way or another, returned to the problems of forming chambers, and especially to the dependence of their composition on the change of heads of regions nominating their own gubernatorial candidacies.

Anyone who helps others certainly deserves a break from the labors of the righteous - the opportunity to return after work to his own warm home, his own walls. Seems like it's fair. But justice increasingly walks around the world in rags, and winter horror stories about bast and ice huts come true.

The government of St. Petersburg and director Meskhiev responded to actor Trukhin On Tuesday, the city government considered the issue “On the progress of winter cleaning work in St. Petersburg” - giving a kind of response to the widely known letter from actor Mikhail Trukhin. Some shortcomings are recognized, but nothing more.

From January 3 to 7, St. Petersburg will host an international Christmas hockey tournament for schoolchildren at the SKA Sports Palace (Zhdanovskaya Embankment, 2). Teams from Belarus, Latvia and Tver are expected, as well as city teams - SKA, Lokomotiv and Spartak. A total of about 150 participants aged 10 years plus their parents and coaches are planned. The organizers promise a festive atmosphere: New Year's gifts, collective visits to the water park, museums and cinema.

This winter, hundreds of people have already suffered from icicles and ice, some of them are going to file lawsuits against organizations that have not fulfilled their cleaning obligations. Meanwhile, the example of the most high-profile “ice” trial of last winter, associated with the injury of Estonian citizen Milana Kashtanova while dumping snow and ice from roofs, shows that it will take a long time for the plaintiffs who slipped to achieve justice.

The next press conference about violations during conscription at the Institute of Regional Press differed from the previous ones in that it was attended by officials who are traditionally the object of criticism of “Soldiers’ Mothers” - two heads of departments of regional commissariats.

On Monday, the city court, at the request of Yabloko activists and Okhtinskaya Bulge activists (Novaya reported on this process), canceled part of the provisions of the city law on the boundaries and regimes of cultural heritage protection zones and the Land Use and Development Rules. The maximum construction heights for development regulation zone (ZRZ) 2-1 (which includes Cape Okhtinsky) have been reduced from 100 to 40 meters - a value that was agreed upon with Rosokhrankultura.

21.12. Picket at the Belarusian consulate in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg journalist spent three days in a Belarusian pre-trial detention center Alexander Astafiev, a photojournalist for the newspaper “Moi Rayon”, went to Minsk to cover the process of the Belarusian elections and their consequences. During these very “consequences,” on Sunday night, he was detained by Minsk police.