There is one less legal loophole for the destroyers of St. Petersburg. The governor signed a law making it impossible for developers to demolish buildings without a building permit. The necessary amendments were made to the law “On urban planning activities in St. Petersburg”; the document will come into force on July 22. There are many holes in the current legislation into which dozens of our historical buildings have fallen.

The editorial office received a call from fishermen who have been accustomed from time immemorial to fishing at the mouth of the Burnaya River (at the confluence with Lake Ladoga). They reported that where there had recently been a free bank (one of the few on Burnaya), a fence had appeared. Behind the fence is the Zolotoy Bereg recreation center, owned by StroyTrans LLC. There is a price list hanging on the fence.

Law enforcement officers showed rare tolerance towards the participants of the national gathering. On July 11, information appeared on the website of the St. Petersburg Investigative Committee: 39-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan A. R. (name shortened - Ed.) was detained. He is suspected of committing acts of a sexual nature against a two-year-old boy on Khasanskaya Street (media version: while dad was unloading something from the car in the parking lot, a stranger got into the child’s panties).

St. Petersburg Memorial demands that Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, who announced at a meeting of the Federation Council that the organization was using sponsors’ money for other purposes, publicly refute his words. Otherwise, human rights activists threaten to go to court. The seagull is silent. On July 10, at a meeting of the Federation Council, Yuri Chaika said that from November 2012 to April 2013, 2,226 Russian NPOs received 30.8 billion rubles from abroad.

Last week's meeting of the Civil Initiatives Committee was surprising with new research from the Center for Strategic Research (CSR). According to the data presented by the head of the Central Socialist Republic, Mikhail Dmitriev, the decline in the ratings of Putin and even United Russia has stopped, and the province is making a greater demand for democracy than Moscow.

The head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin found not only extensive estates and offshores, but also undeclared six acres under Peter. Compared to Yakunin’s business empire, a modest plot in gardening near Roshchino is an absolute trifle. Although this “trifle” would solve problems with the reconstruction of power supply. “Replacing wires is an expensive pleasure. - Nikolai Nikolaev, the chairman of the board of the “artist”, sighs heavily.

The governor met with representatives of two warring parties disputing the fate of Cape Okhtinsky and the future of unique archaeological finds discovered during excavations. If representatives of the KGIOP had previously conveyed their position to the governor, then representatives of the urban protection community, who oppose the development of the cape, met for the first time with the head of the city on this issue.