Six years ago, scientific expert Nikolai Girenko was killed by neo-Nazis. His killers have still not been convicted, and human rights violations are not decreasing: people with non-Slavic appearance are still being killed, the authorities are silencing the press, and the police are behaving no better than bandits - lawyers and human rights activists spoke about this at a meeting with journalists at the Institute regional press. The Human Rights Council of St.

An extremist group has been eliminated in St. Petersburg, trailing a trail of ten murders and five robberies motivated by national intolerance, a series of explosions and arson, including of an Orthodox church. These were distinguished from other Nazis by their particular insolence: they recorded the bloodiest massacres of people on video and posted them on the Internet. The fanatics hunted for their victims for more than a year, and the detectives hunted for them for about six months.

Mikhail Bikhter and his first son Vovochka, who died during the siege A man who passed away long ago - Mikhail Alekseevich Bikhter (1881–1947), a wonderful pianist, a brilliant opera conductor, loved art and work, without which, as he sincerely believed, talent was doomed. He was the artistic director of the Musical Drama Theater, created in St. Petersburg back in 1912. For the last fifteen years of his life, Bikhter taught a singing class at the Leningrad Conservatory...

Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St.

This week, a cassation appeal will be filed in the City Court against the decision of the Smolninsky Court, which refused to the representatives of Yabloko and Okhta Arc to declare illegal the resolution of the city government of September 22, 2009 on the 403-meter height of the Okhta Center.

Residents of the village of Pargolovo are sounding the alarm: one of the postal station buildings at 342–344 Vyborgskoe Highway is being built with an additional second floor. This is despite the fact that the building is protected as an identified cultural heritage site. Until recently, the Committee for the Protection of Monuments did not know about these works at all.

St. Petersburg has become a special, scandalous zone for the dissemination of the independent expert report “Putin. Results. 10 years" by Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov. This is the second attempt in the last three years by the opposition to evaluate Putin’s ten-year distance, and in our city it did not happen without a scandal. A total of 200 thousand copies of the report were confiscated.

Announcement June 21. “On the causes of spontaneous and non-spontaneous protests” From June 21 to July 2, 2010, the Green Lamp press club is holding a film festival of the FRONTLINE project of the Center for Extreme Journalism of the Union of Journalists of Russia “Ten evenings that can change your opinion.” The festival will take place at the Green Lamp press club (Gagarinskaya St., 3). After each film screening there will be discussions. The shows start at 18:00, admission is free.

The day after tomorrow the second reading of Smolny’s scandalous bill “On Amendments and Additions to the Law of St. Petersburg “On Green Spaces for Public Use” is due to take place. The version of the law, adopted on June 9 in the first reading, seems to be worthless - and now they are trying to correct it...