About the film forum, which a year ago united several St. Petersburg film festivals, some speak with skepticism, others with hope. But no matter how you look at the forum, it will undoubtedly become the main film event of the coming fall. The timing of the Film Forum 2013 and the list of participating festivals are still being discussed, but 85 percent of its program has already been completed.

Treatment will not begin very soon if you continue to believe that medicine is free in Russia. Journalist Nastya Minkova has been undergoing treatment for cancer for two years.

St. Petersburg municipalities began to prepare for the election campaign, which will take place in a year. They are rewriting the charters to reduce the number of election commissions, and quietly begin to accept applications. Rewrite the charter According to the law, half of the municipal election commission (IEC) is formed by the municipal council, the second by the city election commission.

The judges of the Admiralteysky district did not follow the lead of the prosecutor's office. The magistrate of precinct No. 8 Glushanok performed a brave act: she legally considered the decision to bring the Memorial center to administrative responsibility as a “foreign agent.” And the judge of the Leninsky District Court, Malinina, rejected the protest of the prosecutor's office.

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”) Yesterday, employees of the Russian Institute of Art History, rebelling against the arbitrariness of the Ministry of Culture, held several street actions.

Soon it will become completely impossible to hold events that the authorities do not like. The scandal surrounding Saturday's rally against homophobia on the Champ de Mars received an unexpected continuation. As it turns out, no one made the decision to stop the rally (on the basis of which the police detained its participants who refused to disperse).

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office is deciding whether to bring a lawsuit against Yuri Mikhailov, the author of the book “The Moral Image of History.” At the end of last year, Smolny decided to give 250 thousand rubles for the purchase of Yuri Mikhailov’s book “The Moral Image of History”. The allocation of budget funds for an essay that is dubious from the point of view of historians and human rights activists caused a strong reaction.