To be baptized with one hand, with the other to sign permits for the development of former cemeteries and places of burials - such a urban planning policy, it seems that the city authorities still adhere to it. “To build something at the place of burials is indecent,” said Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of St. Petersburg, at a meeting of the Council of Cultural Heritage, last summer.

The consequences of concrete floods in Kupchino will be eliminated in mid -June. The construction of new sections of the Frunze radius of the metro is suspended. The reason is the breakdown of a German production shield. Residents of Kupchino learned about her before everyone else: Bucharest Street was flooded ... by concrete. The construction of a new section of the 5th, Frunze-Primorsky line began last year.

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”) In times of crazy printers and wrenches, the difference between a fictitious law and a real one can be as little as a couple of months. Check how well you understand the logic of the current Russian bans.

Changing the “investment coloring” can become a common cause for all St. Petersburg residents. From May 28 to June 4, discussions on draft amendments to the General Plan of St. Petersburg will be held in all districts of the city (the schedule of hearings can be found here ). Can a simple caring Petersburger figure out whether this is good or bad - at least for him and for the place where he lives? And even more so, how to somehow influence the situation?