The spouses Sitora and Daler have been traveling from Tajikistan to work in Russia for five years. To the same area of ​​St. Petersburg. Together with her adult son they live in a so-called hostel - in a crowded house on the outskirts of the city. All three work as janitors. In the room there is a bed, a wardrobe, a low table, at which people sit in an oriental style, on thin cushions.

Company "St. Peter Line Rus, which owns ferries connecting St. Petersburg with Tallinn and Helsinki, turned to Georgy Poltavchenko with a request to support the redevelopment of the passenger seaport so that it could receive freight road trains. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the LLC, Mikhail Evstratikov, informed the governor that the company’s activities were unprofitable, and asked to support his business at the expense of the city budget...

St. Petersburg may become “the first testing ground for gubernatorial elections” Georgy Poltavchenko, despite the fact that he has not spent a year in Smolny, may have to go through the re-election procedure in the fall. The city is accustomed to rumors about Matvienko’s dismissal two or three times a year, so talk about the possible resignation of Poltavchenko, with whom the federal center is allegedly dissatisfied, was taken almost seriously.

Spread out St. Petersburg deputies continue to divide portfolios The day began with a small scandal - the “Socialist Revolutionaries” noticed that a document about who was applying for which commission was given to them just before the start of consideration of this issue. The coordinator of A Just Russia, Alexei Kovalev, said that three Mironovites were expelled from the commission on ecology and environmental management, where they were registered.

“A lie is revealed in a glance, and since I have lied many times - I wore dark glasses” - in this Pinochetian bravado, not without sinister grace, the Mephistophelian essence of any dictatorship flickers. Namely, the confidence of the authorities that even through black glass they can better see what society needs, and know that the only way to force the people to graze peacefully is to lie to their faces. But in a way that he couldn't guess. Or rather, he didn’t even dare to think...

Dissatisfaction with the December elections is pushing young people to take decisive action. The St. Petersburg Observers association, born in January, is ready to counter fraud in the presidential elections. Faculty of Philosophy student Anastasia Stasenko says that the association’s activities are not connected with any party. A group “St. Petersburg - for fair elections!” was opened on the social network “VKontakte!”, in which more than 9 thousand people are already registered.

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”) Three St. Petersburg police officers tried to attribute the death of a 15-year-old teenager in a stronghold to an attack of an unknown illness. The version disappeared within a few hours.

Vladimir Putin is very lucky. Indirectly, he received support from the leaders of the European Union countries - the very ones who love to make speeches about democracy. On Monday, the EU decided to gradually introduce an embargo on oil purchases from Iran. This is unlikely to lead to Tehran abandoning its nuclear program, but the situation on the world market may change noticeably. The beginning of the recession should, in theory, reduce demand for energy.

It’s time to rename the army sports club in St. Petersburg into a club for respectable gentlemen. Or, on the contrary, for guest workers. Such a paradoxical conclusion can be drawn by studying the agreements that SKA concluded with a number of private organizations. Is the army club carried away by non-statutory commercial relationships? Is it possible to develop children's sports in a building that is used as a billiard room?