In the “ZhZL” series, a biography of Dmitry Likhachev was published, which caused a scandal. This is Valery Popov's second attempt to compose a biography of his famous contemporaries, relying mainly on personal memories and stories of mutual acquaintances. The first - about Sergei Dovlatov - ended with the scandalous refusal of the writer’s relatives, after reading Popov’s manuscript, to provide photographs for the design of the book.

In St. Petersburg, they came up with a new way to retain power: municipal deputies arbitrarily extended their powers. Deputies of three districts extended their powers and postponed the elections, which were supposed to take place on September 8, 2013, for a year. At the same time, they did not bother explaining why they did not want to part with their mandates this year. On a single voting day, September 8, 2013, elections were to be held in three municipalities: No.

What if Putin and Medvedev came to the Champ de Mars? And would you just hold hands tightly? And they started waving flags? Let's say blue and white - Gazprom's. And they would start singing the old rock song Heart of glass: “I had love, and it was gas!” And on the field, these two adherents of the love of the blue light would have been awaited by angry shaven-headed and bearded fighters against “blue propaganda”, armed with stones, whips, rotten eggs and smoke bombs... I’m wondering - the St.

Thanks to the ingenious corruption scheme of the 2011 road auction, top officials in the Leningrad region could become 11 billion rubles richer. At the beginning of June, the police conducted a search at the Road Committee in connection with a case of fraud during the repair of the Pikalevo-Strogi-Kolbeki highway. This case is the first sign in a high-profile corruption scandal brewing in the Leningrad region.

The visit of Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to the Zubov Institute turned into a detective story. False maneuvers, disinformation, secret negotiations - all these attributes of spy films were present in the organized visit of the Minister of Culture to the Russian Institute of Art History (RIHI), which took place last Friday.

The website "Lenoblnews" and the movement "Against the seizure of lakes" published a list of illegal plots that are being sold in the Leningrad region and Karelia. In the fight against illegal trafficking of forest resources and coastal strips, activists no longer rely on supervisory authorities.

Businessmen from two capitals fought in the ring for the sake of a child’s life. The first tournament of the WCB format (white collar boxing) between the Moscow club “October” and the St. Petersburg “12 ounces” was held on Krestovsky Island. And although the prize cup remained in the northern capital, there are no losers here. Both teams fought for the main, common victory - victory over the illness of little Misha Berezyuk and other wards of the AdVita charitable foundation.