The Investigative Committee has already discovered that the cost of work at the Zenit stadium has been overstated by 500 million rubles. The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office opened a criminal case for fraud on an especially large scale based on the facts of multimillion-dollar theft during the construction of the Zenit stadium. So far we are talking about half a billion rubles.

Vodokanal presents the opinion of a group of believers as an official position. In the last issue, Novaya wrote about the questions that St. Petersburg physicists asked the management of the main water supply organization in St. Petersburg regarding the rite of consecration of water. The press service of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal of St. Petersburg told us that the organization has not yet received any official letter from physicists and only knows about it from the media.

Vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly Sergei Andenko, in his own words, did not break the law: he swore under his breath, and the microphone suddenly started working. “Novaya” talked about this scandal in the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly (No. 6 of January 21). Let us remind you: on December 5 last year, at a meeting of the local parliament, its vice-speaker Sergei Andenko, who is also the head of the United Russia faction, speaking at the presidium, burst into obscene language.

The Central Naval Museum promises to open its first hall to visitors on Navy Day. The move of the Central Naval Museum from the Exchange building on the Spit of Vasilievsky Island to the former Kryukov barracks near New Holland is coming to an end. As Andrey Lyalin, director of the museum, said, now all 730 exhibits have moved to new premises. But unpacking them and distributing them to halls and storage facilities will take at least another year.

A draconian law on rallies was adopted in the Legislative Assembly. Deputies of parliament considered the governor's bill on rallies and meetings in the second reading. Almost all amendments by opposition deputies were rejected. However, it will now be possible to hold rallies closer to buildings occupied by government bodies. The day before, parliamentarians polished the governor's bill tightening the holding of rallies in the city.

The story of one check under the wing of the vice-governor. In the case of the scandalous bankruptcy of the Lomonosov Road Road Construction Management (DRSU) (New ”No. 94, 2012), details continue to be discovered to assert: in 2010, law enforcement agencies and regional officials of the highest rank were known in 2010. Anxiety at the top The failed bankruptcy of Lomonosovsky DRSU with a high degree of probability was an attempt by the raider seizure of the state -owned enterprise.

The Supreme Court upheld the verdict of scientists accused of treason. Professors of the Baltic State Technical University (BSTU) “Voenmekh” Evgeniy Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev will spend 12.5 and 12 years (respectively) in a maximum security colony. This decision was made on June 20, 2012 by the City Court of St. Petersburg, finding Afanasyev guilty of treason and betraying state secrets, and Bobyshev of aiding a state traitor.