Now children's camps near St. Petersburg and in the Leningrad region even ask for bread. For almost a month, all other products have been taken on parole. The hungriest orphanages steal loaves of bread and, like unfed sparrows, swoop down on the so-called. homeless packages (Chinese noodles), which compassionate summer residents feed orphans. Not everywhere in children's summer holiday areas there is hot water. In some places it’s not even cold.

The hurricane of 2010 still does not let us forget about it. In the Leningrad region, trees were felled on thousands of hectares, and a significant part of the windfall has still not been dismantled, which leads to the danger of fires and dendroepidemics due to bark beetles.

Workaholics The Legislative Assembly went on summer vacation. Before this, parliamentarians boasted that in six months of work they were able to form a friendly team and pass 73 laws. The people's representatives themselves gave birth to 32 laws, the rest were adopted at the suggestion of Smolny and the prosecutor's office. There was, however, no place in the well-coordinated team of legislators for the persistent truant Alexander Salaev.

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”) The 36th session of the World Heritage Committee refused to discuss the St. Petersburg issue on the agenda.