Large-scale reconstruction of the Vasileostrovskaya metro station may begin in the fall. Instead of a small pavilion, it is planned to build a seven-story shopping and business center on a plot of five thousand square meters. At least, these are the plans of the Metropolitan State Unitary Enterprise and the Vasileostrovsky Trade and Business Center CJSC.

Announcement The Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater presents: March 12, 13 Baltic House Tragicomic fantasies based on M. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” This year marks the 10th anniversary of the release of the workshop of the People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Mark Zakharov at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS), where the play “The Master and Margarita” was born.

The failure of the Russian team at the Olympics, the subsequent harsh debriefing and the task set by the president - to seriously engage in the revival of mass sports, accessible to everyone from early childhood - marked a new vector in the public discussion about the fate of the Lopukhinsky Garden. The water station, which has operated here for more than half a century, can add to the already impressive list of sports facilities sacrificed for commercial development.

Yuri Vasilyevich and Valentina Aleksandrovna Kostylev - 74-year-old homeless disabled people from the village of Perevoz, Tosnensky district, Leningrad region - do not complain about life: The siege survivor and his wife have been living in a cattle barn for five years “We, children of the war years, have experienced and survived so much that it’s a sin for us to complain!” - the old people sigh.

Novaya has repeatedly talked about the last captain of the legendary icebreaker "Krasin" Lev Kokorev, who lives with his wife in a dilapidated summer house in the suburbs of Vyborg. But fate continues to test the captain: even the land in front of the house no longer belongs to the Kokorevs - the head of the local administration, by his decree, transferred the plot to another person.

The story that took place in the city of Luga, Leningrad Region, instantly glorified all its participants. Most of all, its main person involved in this had a hand in this - the owner of the auto parts store (Avtomig LLC), Mr. Ghukasyan, who now will not have to be surprised if one of his fellow countrymen does not shake hands with him.

The interaction between American and Russian intelligence services made it possible to expose and suppress the activities of an international group of hackers who operated mainly in the United States, but needed the help of their Russian colleagues to legalize stolen funds. The Primorsky Federal Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Maxim Rocco, a graduate of the St.

Illegal dismissals and non-payment of benefits for pregnancy, childbirth, and child care are becoming almost a traditional phenomenon. Our leaky legislation contributes to this. The law puts new mothers in direct dependence on the employer. And the stork will write out the allowance The problem seems obvious: according to the law, child benefits to working mothers are paid by His Majesty the employer, to whom these payments are compensated by the Social Insurance Fund (SIF).

Having already become a traditional prize for spenders of budget funds, the “Golden Brush” this year went to Psychoneurological Boarding School No. 2 (in the St. Petersburg suburb of Strelna) for the purchase of mink and arctic fox hats for patients. The founders of the Golden Brush - activists of the St. Petersburg youth Yabloko - presented the award to the heroes in early March. Novaya wrote about this dizzying order from the St. Petersburg authorities (see No. 58 of August 10, 2009).

What to listen to in the remaining three weeks of March? This is the question many St. Petersburg residents and visiting music lovers ask themselves when passing by posters for philharmonic concerts. Having looked through the March posters, I came to the conclusion that the main musical events of the month promise to be the tour of two piano “vinyl stars” in our city. I'm talking about Peter Donahue and Eliso Virsaladze.

The third month has passed since the monetization of housing and communal benefits began in St. Petersburg, which covered 990 thousand people - 22% of the total population of St. Petersburg. These are disabled people and war veterans, blockade survivors, labor veterans, home front workers, repressed people, large families and other categories of citizens who received a 50 percent discount on rent before the New Year.