Applications are still being accepted for the competition “Lessons in the Memory of Political Repression in Russia in the 20th Century,” which is open to school teachers, museum workers, and anyone interested in the history of the Gulag and Soviet terror. Irina Fliege, director of the Memorial Scientific Information Center in St.

United Russia Alexander Salaev (nicknamed "Spaniard") and Alexei Timofeev (nicknamed "Estonian") left the city legislative assembly. The party members, which, judging by the posters, believed in Russia and its future, preferred the European Union for the benefit of Petersburgers. At the first meeting after the summer holidays, the speaker Vyacheslav Makarov read out the statements of the deputies.

The consequence lasted a year and a half. The trial, which has fit in one meeting. A condescending verdict in the case of the murder of 15-year-old Nikita Leontyev in the strong point 75 of the Police of St.

The townspeople demand to stop the construction, which will destroy the monument to the women air defense fighters who saved Leningrad during the siege. Residents from different parts of the city came to the Petrograd side to protect the monument and adjacent houses. Near the firewall of building 1-A on Kropotkinskaya Street, on the corner with Kronverkskaya, high, almost in the sky, there is a stylized figure of a woman.

... has developed into a civil war in which each side considers itself to be a victim. Sergey Early in the morning Olya and Sergei Krasnov arrive in Pesochny by minibus. At the Oncology Research Institute. All day long, while her husband is receiving chemo, Olya sits in the corridor and waits. Sergei looks exhausted - his face is gray-yellow, the hospital blanket is pulled up to his thin collarbones, and there is anxiety mixed with sadness in his eyes. “Obstructive jaundice has begun.

New construction - now a church - on the site of the former Porcelain cemetery again causes controversy and mixed assessments from the public and authorities.

The dominance of advertising turns the stone book of St. Petersburg into a cheap coloring book. The Press Committee, which controls the outdoor advertising market, does not hide its main task - to make maximum money from the exploitation of historical walls and views. The accompanying loss of face (even the face of a city on the UNESCO list) is not their concern. The departments responsible for preserving the appearance of St. Petersburg are concerned about this.