When I think about why modern St. Petersburg, with all its bureaucratic swindlers, werewolves in uniform, Okhta centers and other abominations, has not yet sunk into the ground like Sodom and Gomorrah, I remember philharmonic concerts. It seems to me that, in addition to the aesthetic one, they also perform a certain ethical function, purifying the aura of our city.

Two pieces of news came one after the other. First, President Medvedev signed a military doctrine in which NATO’s actions continue to be declared the main threat to Russia’s security. The second is France, a NATO member country, which agreed to sell us the Mistral helicopter carrier. We look for the enemy where there is light, and not where we lost It turns out to be an interesting story.

The children's ombudsman sided with the authorities, a St. Petersburg woman stood up for the protection of her children Deprive, seize, refuse, evict - unfortunately, too often imaginary legal protection is based on this. And also on the habit of “cutting off the oxygen” to an already cornered person. This seems to have happened with Vera Kamkina, three of whose four children were removed from the family and sent first to the Kolpino hospital, and then to orphanage No. 31.

A difficult fate for the residents of Pikalevka may befall the residents of the 30,000-population town of Slantsy, almost on the border with Estonia. The other day, the governor of the Leningrad region, Valery Serdyukov, came to the city. This is the first message in the governor’s blog, which he started on February 14.

The misadventures of house No. 46 on the 9th line of Vasilievsky Island are connected, on the one hand, with the resettlement that did not quite take place (that is, partial), and on the other hand, with the subsequent, for a moderate fee (three thousand monthly, from the nose), the settlement of vacant apartments guest workers. The building was undergoing major renovations and then turned into a dormitory for migrant workers.

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”) This year, declared the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France, is being celebrated in St.

The once sensational case of the assassination attempt on the rector of the Polar Academy, Kermen Basangova, is being investigated in silence. Detained as the “customers of the crime” and its “accomplices”, the first vice-rector of the university Vladimir Lukin, the head of the motor vehicle fleet Vladimir Zhavoronkov and his son, Basangova’s personal driver Mikhail Zhavoronkov, continue to be in the status of villains.

The trust voting system returns to the Mariinsky Palace A year ago, Novaya told how the city parliament first abolished the trust system, and then tried to bring it back. Before this, the Charter Court considered the corresponding request of a group of deputies, and the likelihood of recognizing proxy voting as inconsistent with the city charter was very high.

The Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage under the Government of St. Petersburg decided to conduct a new examination of the technical condition of the Gauswald Dacha on Kamenny Island. Dacha Gauswald will be examined again The previous one, made in 2004 by the Spetsproektrestavratsiya institute, is outdated and needs to be updated. It is necessary to examine not only the wooden part of the monument affected by the fungus, but also the stone one.

On February 27, 2010, on the eve of the birthday of the famous human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, an evening in her memory will be held at the Interior Theater. Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped in Grozny on July 15, 2009 and killed on the same day in Ingushetia. Thanks to the professional work of Natalya Estemirova, the world learned about gross violations of human rights in Chechnya, about those killed and missing.

Last week, as many as four television channels simultaneously spread the good news for the RBI company - the defenders of the Lopukhinsky Garden, who had been opposing the construction of a hotel on the site of a former water station since 2006, “found a common language” with the developer and “concluded a settlement agreement.” Virtual defenders of Lopukhinsky Garden conspired with the developer There is Contact!

Literatorov Street: Pavel Filonov's house The Museum of the History of St. Petersburg has prepared a guide to the Russian avant-garde “Who can restore the meaning of newspaper formulations and illuminate the life of the great city at the end of the St.

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”) 17 years - this is how long it took the German historian Jan Plumper to work on the book “The Alchemy of Power.

At a meeting of the Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Vera Dementyeva reported that KGIOP suspended work on the construction of a parking lot on Hare Island, where the remains of victims of the Red Terror were again found at the end of December.