The Military Investigation Department of the Leningrad Military District is conducting an investigation into the death of a conscript soldier, 23-year-old Sergei Sementsyn, who was found hanged on the territory of the 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Kamenka. Other crimes may be hidden behind a new death in a military unit Suicide for no reason The conscript's body was discovered by fellow soldiers in the garage of a military unit.

Congratulations The editors of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg congratulate our correspondent Ekaterina Kolesova, who was awarded a diploma from the All-Russian Golden Gong journalist competition. For 16 years, the country's best journalists have been awarded a bronze statuette of Iris, the goddess of news and rainbows, holding a swaying gong in her hands, which is intended to draw attention to the most pressing issues.

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”) Chaotic construction near Sennaya will continue without waiting for the approval of a unified concept for its development.

Few people in the liberal environment take seriously the “modernization” announced by Dmitry Medvedev. Conversations about this undertaking are becoming increasingly anecdotal, as in their time about Khrushchev’s idea of ​​“communism in 20 years.” On the other hand, at first they thought the same thing about Gorbachev’s perestroika...

St. Petersburg officials finally admitted that the “snow apocalypse” that paralyzed the city this winter was the result of the unpreparedness of the city authorities, and not of snowfalls, supposedly unprecedented in abundance over the past century and a half. There is a catastrophic lack of equipment (and what we have is 70% worn out) and personnel.

Viktor Shenderovich — Valentina Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna! My respect for you, the extent of which defies description, makes me turn to you with some anxiety. This is a concern for your reputation. Here, in a nutshell, is the crux of the matter. April 18th I was supposed to have a concert at the St. Petersburg Variety Theater. Arkady Raikin, about which an agreement was signed with the theater administration. However, about three weeks before the concert, amazing things began to happen.

Residents who were responsible for flooding the apartment of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the 2nd line of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg received penalties. After a prosecutor's inspection, the building management servicing the five-story building where the former president lived and retained his apartment was fined 10 thousand rubles. Along the way, many more shortcomings of the regional housing services were revealed.

The trial of the group members, who are charged with dozens of episodes of murder, armed attacks on people with “non-Slavic appearance”, illegal acquisition and storage of weapons and explosives, production and distribution of neo-Nazi literature, has been stalled for almost a month for various reasons. As a result, important episodes on which the defendants testify turned out to be “blurred” by endless absences from court hearings.

The report of the Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), which was presented on Friday in St. Petersburg, was liked by the majority of participants in the relevant discussion: the “desired tomorrow” drawn in it by Igor Yurgens, Evgeny Gontmakher and their colleagues is a kind of “Noon. The 21st century,” to paraphrase the Strugatsky brothers, is really quite nice. Insor’s “image of the future” did not add optimism Do they need it?

The Big and Small Halls of the Philharmonic - from a logistics point of view (that is, how to get there) - are without a doubt the most convenient concert venues in the city. You come out of the Griboyedov Canal or Gostiny Dvor metro stations, and a minute later you are already there.

On April 1, Russian justice played a good joke on the non-profit sector. In the cases of two St. Petersburg NGOs, decisions were made almost simultaneously, seemingly ridiculing each other: the Institute of Regional Press won a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice, and Soldiers' Mothers lost a lawsuit to an investigator of the military investigative department. The overall result of April Fool's Day is sad bewilderment.