Readers of Novaya probably remember how journalist Alexandra Garmazhapova managed to sneak into a closed meeting in the administration of the Kirovsky district to ensure a landslide victory for Valentina Matvienko in the municipal elections in the Krasnenkaya Rechka district.

Employees of Pulkovo Airport, dissatisfied with wages and working conditions, will come out with their demands on the enterprise administration building on October 3. The organizers of the action - the leaders of the airport ground service workers' trade union - claim unprecedented pressure from the management of Northern Capital Gateway LLC, but they are not going to abandon the risky undertaking.

The idea of ​​the terrible order established in Russian prisons and colonies is firmly ingrained in our consciousness thanks to films, books and other media products. However, we receive little real information about the state of affairs in the penitentiary system; most often it comes in the form of distorted rumors. Therefore, despite our seeming readiness for any horrors, when some of them actually come to light, we are taken aback...

Leaving our city, Valentina Matvienko left behind a difficult legacy, consisting of a number of controversial urban development projects. In the first place in this series are the alluviums in Sestroretsk and in the Lomonosov area, the construction of the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter, especially in the residential area of ​​Vasilyevsky Island, the planned zoo on the border of the Yuntolovsky reserve, and wastewater treatment plants in Lisiy Nos.

Archaeological treasures under the former Okhta Center can now only be saved by a miracle Last Wednesday, the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court ended the trial in the case of Okhta Center vs. KGIOP, which Novaya talked about several times. The court canceled the order of the security department of December 22, 2010 and thereby - omitting details - again declared the majority of the monuments of Cape Okhtinsky non-existent.