It is impossible for small businesses to compete with large retail chains; they cannot withstand the competition. As a result, the ordinary citizen suffers. Firstly, he can’t open his own business.

On December 7, a competition began to select the concept for the construction of a new zoo in Yuntolovo. The winner is expected to be announced on December 21st.

The amendment developed by the administration of St. Petersburg and introduced by State Duma deputy Viktor Pleskachevsky has been changed - the term “reconstruction” will not be included in the list of work on monuments permitted by Federal Law No. 73. However, the threat to the heritage inherent in the second amendment submitted by Duma deputy Denis Davitiashvili remains.

Once, Zoya Borisovna Tomashevskaya said, a telephone rang out: “Hello, this is Gergiev. I was told that you know everyone for whom Richter was the most important part of fate. ” - "This is true". The reason for a short conversation was the concert preparing in the Mariinsky Theater in memory of Svyatoslav Richter, whom Valery Gergiev always idolized. And Zoya Borisovna was associated with Svyatoslav Teofilovich decades of heart friendship.

An unusual call entered this week to the organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg." Not anyone called, but Refat Niyazovich Appazov, the head of the department of the military commissariat of St.

Interdistrict Narcological Dispensary No. 1 is well known to everyone who has at least once been accused of driving while intoxicated. It is its experts who determine the level of alcohol in the blood of drivers - and it is on them that it depends whether or not the driver will be deprived of his license for a long period.

The criminal investigation that the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office opened against police officer Vadim Boyko at the end of summer has stalled. First, the warrant officer, accused of exceeding his authority, according to his own statement, was beaten by unknown assailants and ended up in a hospital bed. Then the same thing happened to his lawyer, and he also ended up in a clinic for treatment.

On Monday evening in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg, an explosion occurred on Malaya Street: the monument to Lenin, moved here four years ago, tilted and cracked. And although the blast wave blew out the windows in the apartments of a residential building nearby, the leader of the world proletariat himself survived. As a reminder that such Bolshevik methods cannot get rid of our recent past.

In what form the rally will take place on December 12 under the slogan “A verdict on Khodorkovsky is a verdict on the future” remains a mystery at the moment - for the media, for the organizers (Human Rights Council, the Solidarity movement, etc.) and, it seems, for Smolny itself. The administration of St.

According to the law, which was adopted in the third reading in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, 90% of home care services will be compensated for single pensioners - disabled people and war veterans, home front workers, blockade survivors, and prisoners of fascist concentration camps. Those who do not have children and those whose children are unable to care for their parents because they are disabled or because they live in other regions will be entitled to compensation.