Last Thursday, St. Petersburg was subjected to a chemical attack: the Krasny Bor site for the disposal of toxic waste of hazard class I–IV was once again on fire. “There is no threat to the health or life of people,” said the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg, Leonid Belyaev. — Exceeding standard parameters was not recorded. Smoke is not dangerous.

Why does Smolny think that the memorial cross will damage the Peter and Paul Fortress, but the accumulation of buses near its walls will not? In 2007, the writer Daniil Granin turned to Governor Valentina Matvienko with a request to install a memorial sign near the outer wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress facing the Kronverksky Channel - in memory of the victims of the Red Terror.

In a few days, two former employees of the 86th police department of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg will go to a maximum security colony: ex-precinct officer 33-year-old Andrei Gvozd was sentenced to 8 years in prison, ex-investigative officer of the criminal investigation department 36-year-old Oleg Volkov - to 11.

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”) If we consider President Medvedev’s intention to make Governor Matvienko the head of the Federation Council as a reward for successful gubernatorial activities, then all the snowmen of the last two winters will begin to murmur with indignation.

During the ten days that wheelchair users were no longer allowed on the metro, my phone hasn’t stopped ringing. We are already almost friends with Alexander, Zhenya, Yuri, Nikolai, two Sergei and the wife of one of them, Anya. Seryozha and Anya made it a rule to report every day where they were not allowed in and where they were sent.

Ten billion federal rubles were the main argument when in February of this year deputies of the Legislative Assembly were persuaded to allocate another 9.4 billion rubles from the city budget for the stadium. Officials explained the increase in price by “FIFA requirements” on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, an increase in the arena’s capacity to 68 thousand spectators and the presence of a retractable field that will be dried and ventilated after matches.

The book “Police and Ethnic Migrants: Practices of Interaction” took almost six years to write. From 2006 to 2008, work was carried out “in the field” - in Kazan and St. Petersburg. In Kazan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs allowed sociologists to work alongside district police officers and police officers. In St. Petersburg it was not possible to obtain such permission, and they had to cooperate secretly. Three more years to process the information - and the results are published.

The serious road accident became known only a few days later - when one of its high-ranking participants - Chairman of the FAS Directorate for St. Petersburg Oleg Kolomiychenko - regained consciousness. The second, a 43-year-old KamAZ driver transporting cargo from Novgorod to St. Petersburg, died. In the Leningrad region, a person died in an accident involving the head of the St.

Public hearings on permission for a 500-meter height deviation for the Lakhta Center, held on Friday in the administration of the Primorsky District, were reminiscent of the hearings on the Okhta Center, except that they were a little calmer. The fiasco at Cape Okhtinsky added 100 meters to Gazprom’s appetite.