On Wednesday, a political storm almost occurred in St. Petersburg: the day before, representatives of the federal leadership of United Russia threatened to recall Sergei Mironov, who represents the St. Petersburg parliament there, from the Federation Council. But everything was limited to an exchange of harsh statements, since it turned out that there was simply no legal opportunity to recall Mironov.

St. Petersburg residents meet them every day in the metro. With old women with outstretched hands at the entrance to the escalators or in the passages between stations, with crippled “veterans of military conflicts” in camouflage, paratrooper vests and blue berets, demandingly stretching out their hands in the carriages, with “we-we-are-not-locals” asking for money for an operation, feeding their children or returning home.

A new explosion on the Oktyabrskaya Railway in St. Petersburg - the third in the last two years - fortunately, there were no casualties. Investigative authorities do not yet know whether the incident is considered a terrorist attack. However, we are sure: the performer is not a professional. Nevertheless, if his goal was to loudly declare himself, then this was quite successful.

The first and main blow during the crash of the Nevsky Express on November 27, 2009 was taken by the Central District Hospital (CRH) in Bologoye and the emergency department attached to it (they are nearby and help each other out like two neighbors: one has no salt, the other has no bread). But that unexpected blow was held here with all their strength. Where medicine, limping on both legs, was almost powerless, doctors turned out to be very strong.

The Investigation Department of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has completed a criminal investigation against high-ranking employees of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). According to investigators, seven senior officers of the GUFSIN in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region ordered prisoner assistants to rape other prisoners. Prison wardens filmed the cruel abuse on video. Seven high-ranking employees of the St.

Two people died and twelve were injured in an accident in the center of St. Petersburg A terrible accident happened yesterday at about 16.30 near house number 106 on Nevsky Prospekt near the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station. Regular bus route No.

Eleven city officials fired for failing to clean up city The following people lost their posts directly at a meeting of the city government: first deputy chairman of the KBDH Boris Chernyashenko, head of the road and bridge department of the KBDH Valentin Shchemelev, deputy heads of administrations of the Kirov, Krasnoselsky and Central districts Mikhail Prozorov, Valery Vasiliev and Valery Garnets, director of the State Unitary Road Specialized Enterprise " Civil" Yuri Burdonos, director of the

Announcement On February 5, 2010 at 19:00, the premiere and discussion of the documentary film “Aldy. No statute of limitations." Free admission. This is a film about the events in the village of Novye Aldy in the Chechen Republic, where exactly ten years ago, on February 5, 2000, St. Petersburg riot police carried out a cleansing operation.

Today marks 40 days since the tragic death of the famous restorer Alexander Zhuravlev. Let us remind you that the attack took place on December 21 at the entrance of a residential building. As a result of severe injuries, the master died in the hospital. Alexander Zhuravlev is a restorer of the highest category, a member of the World Amber Council, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and the head of the project for the restoration of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace.

Konstantin Dushenov (right) and fans The editor-in-chief of Rus Pravoslavnaya was convicted It took the Kirov Federal Court of St. Petersburg about three hours yesterday to pronounce a sentence on the editor-in-chief of Rus Pravoslavnaya, Konstantin Dushenov, and his two accomplices, Alexander Malyshev and Pyotr Meleshko. All this time, fans of Dushenov and police squads were on duty at the doors of the court.