The detention of Vladimir Belinsky became known on September 1: several dozen drivers working on the first line of the St. Petersburg metro went to work with white armbands with the inscription “For Volodya.” The drivers stated that Belinsky was illegally sitting in a pre-trial detention center because he was resisting “bad raiders who want to evict him.” For some reason, neither the drivers nor the St.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly adopted in the first reading the introduced bill “On the transfer of state-owned property of St. Petersburg for religious purposes to religious organizations.” Deputies argued for a long time about who would decide who and what to transfer. Smolny and deputies did not divide religious property The document was submitted by Georgy Poltavchenko.

The struggle for Lenfilm lasts several years. All this time, the studio’s defenders - members of the public council and a few employees - fought off as best they could from those who wanted to absorb the country’s oldest film enterprise. In the fall of 2011, Alexander Sokurov turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to prevent the loss of the studio.

The building was built according to the design of the architect Lyubarsky in 1932–1938. in the style of late constructivism, is recognized as a monument of regional significance, but developers seem to be planning to build a multi-storey luxury residential building in its place.

The idea of ​​uniting several local film festivals under one banner came to the mind of the former head of St. Petersburg culture Dmitry Meskhiev in January of this year. He failed to bring this story to the finale - at the end of July he had to leave his post. But they decided to carry out their plans at any cost. As a result, four film festivals: “Message to Man”, “Vivat Cinema of Russia”, “Beginning” and the St.

Nine Orthodox townspeople, who for some reason attended Madonna’s concert, believe that the star, the organizer of the PMI show and the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex, where the event took place, caused them moral damage in the amount of 333 million rubles.