“A teacher must teach, a writer must write, a director must make films, and when someone begins to engage in their unprofessional activities, then, in principle, it begins to turn out to be a mess and a bazaar,” Roman Filimonov taught city defenders. They responded by sending the vice-governor with a degree in electrical engineering to fix the wiring.

About 13 billion rubles have been allocated from the state treasury for the installation of web cameras at polling stations. Six aircraft with equipment are already in the country - a seventh is expected. In addition, 27 trucks with equipment entered the Russian Federation. This is how the Central Election Commission and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia carry out the will of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, who wished for transparent elections.

Novaya spoke in its first issue of 2012 about how the unfortunate ballet dancers were forced to dance “The Nutcracker” to “plywood.” Throughout the New Year holidays, the audience was shocked by the empty orchestra pit and Tchaikovsky crackling from the speakers.

St. Petersburg drivers who stood in traffic jams for at least an hour, letting the prime minister's motorcade pass, expressed their gratitude to Putin. They greeted Vladimir Vladimirovich with deafening beeps. The incident became known on Saturday morning, although it all happened on the evening of Thursday, January 19. On January 21, St. Petersburg resident Oleg posted a video on YouTube, the popularity of which is growing at an incredible speed: several thousand views every hour.

“All our troubles come from the fact that everyone wants to become president.” This sacramental phrase was uttered not by Boris Nemtsov, not by Garry Kasparov, or even by Grigory Yavlinsky, but by twice ex-President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who both times - in 1991 and 2004 - had to flee the country “early”... The thirst of Haitians to personally try their luck as president is phenomenal.

The oversight agency insists on eliminating legal loopholes that allow “agreeing” on the extent of permissible transformations of historical buildings, and demands that their demolition be banned altogether. The prosecutor's office demands to change the law on security zones, eliminating corruption factors City Law No. 820, adopted in 2009, “On the boundaries of zones for the protection of cultural heritage sites...” in many ways became a document of compromise.

Songs by the leader of the St. Petersburg trio “Bricks” are about politics for fun Vasya V. The St. Petersburg trio “Bricks” is the first Russian group to play hip-hop on guitars. The leader of the group, Vasya Vasin, began writing caustic, sarcastic lyrics filled with reflections on society, politics and economics in the 90s, when writing songs on such topics was not at all fashionable. “Bricks,” however, almost immediately recruited an army of fans, and their songs were widely quoted.

The Communist Party faction has been renewed almost completely - ridiculously little is known about the majority of deputies Entrepreneur Irina Ivanova distinguished herself already at the second meeting of the Legislative Assembly, being the only one to speak out against the Apple initiative, which involved a roll-call vote.

In St. Petersburg they remember Nastya Baburova, Stas Markelov and the brown threat “The world is colored, not brown” and “All different - all equal” - St. Petersburg anti-fascists chanted at the memorial rally on January 19. They shouted and turned to face the riot police. Nobody even made a comment to them.