"ABOUT! Poltavchenko is already for sale here! Almost 500 rubles!” - townspeople notice as they pass by a bookstore on Nevsky Prospekt, in whose window a portrait of the new governor has been adorning for the second week. Portraits of the country's top officials are presented in a full range in the city's bookstores - from cheap cardboard prints to ceremonial portraits in a gilded frame. The price of a portrait depends on the size and design of the panel.

The commander of the Rzhev training ground filed a lawsuit in the Kuibyshevsky District Court against the human rights organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg” for the protection of honor and dignity. The basis was a video posted on the Internet in which soldiers mock their fellow soldiers. “The mobile phones on which the abuse was filmed were confiscated by the officers,” says Ella Polyakova, chairman of the public human rights organization “Soldiers’ Mothers of St.

Verifying the authenticity of voters' signatures in support of parties' participation in elections is the main way to exclude opposition from elections. There is nothing easier for the election commission than to refuse registration to “wrong” candidates or entire parties, declaring the signatures in their support unreliable. That is, carried out not by the voter himself, but by someone else.

The day before, the city parliament adopted the budget for 2012 in the third reading. However, the deputies, who are also candidates for people's representatives of the next convocation, preferred to talk about food. It turned out that the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Vadim Tyulpanov, eats buckwheat porridge every morning, after which he can spend the whole day engaged in lawmaking.

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”) Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak may take the place of chairman. According to Novaya, it is in the Constitutional Court that the current candidate for State Duma deputy can be employed.

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”) “I have been in the medical unit of the FBU IZ-47/5 institution since September 13, 2011,” Telman Mkhitaryan reports in his complaint to the prosecutor. “My health condition is getting worse every day.

Vladimir Belozerskikh is confident that the people will support his idea to erect a monument to Vladimir Putin on the Proletarian Dictatorship Square and urgently give the national leader the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia. “As soon as it occurred to me, I immediately wrote to the new governor,” says the ex-deputy of the Legislative Assembly. In the elections in March 2007, he ran for the LDPR, but did not receive a mandate.

On October 27, 2011 at 18:00 at the Green Lamp press club there will be a screening of the film “Vlast (Power)” and a discussion “Authority and civil society in Russia - on the way to confrontation or agreement?” “Vlast” talks about the processes taking place in Russia at the beginning of the 2000s. The central figure of the film is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a man whom the authorities called the best manager in Russia a year before his arrest.

A journalistic investigation into the activities of St. Petersburg restaurateur and Putin’s personal chef, Evgeny Prigozhin, began with a scandal: the Concord company, which belongs to him, began to feed students in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region with ready-made lunches from bags. The shock technology of “cook and cool”, “heat and eat” was not to the taste of children. It alerted parents, teachers, and doctors.