St. Petersburg oppositionists once again distinguished themselves by holding actions as part of the “For Fair Elections!” campaign. there will be two. Liberals and nationalists found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades. Dissenters argue whose organizing committee is more representative, who is to blame for the protest impasse, and why, if Russophobic statements cannot be allowed, Caucasophobic ones should not be banned.

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”) It seemed that the long-running series “House of Stage Veterans: Life and Fate” would end in 2011.

Neither the march nor the rally in memory of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who were killed by the Nazis three years ago in Moscow, were allowed to take place by the St. Petersburg authorities. The reason for the Smolny ban is outright mockery: the initiators submitted the application late. And it was impossible to warn officials about the action on time - ten days in advance, as the law requires - due to the New Year's weekend and holidays.

“The former, flexible and dynamic, it embodied the perspective of the transition “from traditional to modern.” But then he began to oil it, working for the archaization of public life and for “progress for the few”…” “The Supreme Leader, who became an increasingly unambiguous political character, inspired less and less hope.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly elected vice-speakers, heads of specialized committees and commissions for the fourth time Speaker of the city parliament Vyacheslav Makarov claims that Smolny did not interfere in the process, but the newly appointed chairman of the Budget and Financial Committee, Konstantin Sukhenko, said that “the distribution was worked out with the executive branch.” The consultations were rumored to have ended late last night.

The protests against mass fraud on December 4 showed: Russians do not consider the elections to the Duma legitimate, and St. Petersburg residents also do not consider the elections to the Legislative Assembly legitimate. But which of the deputies took someone else's place? Members of the “Right to Choose” group tried to answer this question by recounting the votes in the elections to the Legislative Assembly based on copies of protocols received from observers.