After the scandalous demolition of garages in Parnassus, where riot police had to be brought in this winter to pacify obstinate motorists, the garage topic has become extremely sensitive. Therefore, garage owners were eagerly awaiting the results of the meeting of the Legislative Assembly commission on the transport complex. But the mountain gave birth to a mouse: they decided to create a working group to take inventory of the garages.

In fact, open letters, especially to the patriarch, are not a newspaper genre. But Maya Sonina wrote an ordinary letter, which she sent by regular mail, and then posted it on her blog. She, a person who has been helping to save people with a terrible disease, cystic fibrosis, for many years, was amazed that the Russian Orthodox Church signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

Clarification The statement (in No. 47 of Novaya Gazeta) by the deputy head of the Vasileostrovskaya administration Tatyana Shaidorova that the section of Morskaya Embankment opposite house No. 15 is not included in the list of green spaces for public use should be considered correct. (Law of St. Petersburg “On green spaces for public use” No. 430-85 dated October 8, 2007 (as amended on June 30, 2010).

Director Alexander Sokurov sent an open letter to Governor Valentina Matvienko, saying that “circumstances of a special nature” force him to speak with the governor through the media and that “he has no other opportunity.” “Your meetings with a group of city defenders have become rare,” the appeal says. — The next one is planned only for the beginning of August. Many urgent, controversial issues have not been resolved.

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”) At a press conference held on July 11 and announcing the nominees for the Golden Sofit 2011, amid a scandal, the bosses finally admitted: Sofit is not a free theater award, but administrative support for certain trends.

The dismemberment goth did not withdraw his claims against the mother of his victim, as the city press reported. He asked to stop the process, fearing the terms for perjury.

Last week I was invited to the prosecutor’s office of the Vasile-Ostrovsky district: “a complaint was received” about my article. The article talked about how Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin refused to recognize the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as extremist literature. This document has been used to incite hostility towards Jews for over a century. The “Protocols,” as historians have long proven, are a fake, made in Paris in 1896–1900 by an agent of the Russian secret police.

Details are in the next issue of Novaya. Urgently to the room The construction height in Lakhta, where Gazprom plans to build its new tower, can be increased to 500 meters. Last night, the Land Use and Development Commission of St. Petersburg, as expected, supported the developers' application. Ten members of the commission voted for this decision, three voted against: Legislative Assembly deputy Sergei Malkov, representatives of KGIOP and KUGI.

The reconstruction of the barracks of the Pavlovsky Regiment on the Field of Mars, the building where Lenenergo was previously located, may soon begin. The results of the tender for the partial demolition of the federal monument have become known, but the developers are not commenting. In May 2010, this building was transferred to Lotus Hotels LLC (part of the Plaza Lotus Group) to house a hotel there.

On Monday, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg held a regular hearing in the case of the “pearl ensign” Vadim Boyko. The PPS policeman is accused of exceeding official powers using special means (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) - namely, of using unjustified violence against participants in “Strategy-31” near Gostiny Dvor in July last year. The court hearing was marked by several “sensations”.