On December 4, all 50 deputies to the Legislative Assembly will be elected exclusively from party lists. There will be no transition to a mixed electoral system - 25 deputies based on lists and 25 in single-mandate constituencies. Although in the last three months they have been talking about this as if it was a done deal. This is the main political result of the past week.

Valentina Matvienko proposed extending the reception hours at clinics to 21 hours and revising their work schedule on Saturdays This procedure would be convenient for patients, but one cannot expect that the announced changes will occur in the near future. “First we need to resolve the issue with personnel - otherwise innovations will do more harm than good,” replies the press secretary of the Health Committee, Evgenia Semenova, diplomatically.

In the City Court of St. Petersburg, the debate in the case of the Voevodin-Borovikov group continues. Lawyer Pavel Lepshin, justifying the actions of the defendant Artem Prokhorenko, based his defense on the actual justification of aggression against migrants and all foreigners coming to St. Petersburg. He believes that his client and his accomplices are true patriots. Artem Prokhorenko’s tattoo: “To each his own” Was there a boy?

The transport security department caught an operative red-handed: an employee of the company he was checking gave him money. It would seem that the fact of giving a bribe is obvious. But the investigative department refused to initiate a criminal case, claiming that the operative had been slandered. The case must be decided by the court, to which representatives of the company that has come under pressure have applied.

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”) The suspect in the hacker attack on the website of FC Zenit, the owner and editor-in-chief of the online sports publication Nevsky Sport, 28-year-old Nikita Volgin, was detained in St. Petersburg on the eve of the weekend.

The new crossing across the Neva, approved by Smolny, leads to nowhere: the flow of cars will fall into the traps of narrow streets and embankments. But for the sake of this dubious undertaking, they are ready to put at stake the fate of the oldest shipbuilding enterprise, domestic shipping and unique monuments. According to experts, the risky adventure has a single goal: to free up 15 hectares of land in the historical center for commercial development.