June 12 is a strange holiday. Even in the 90s, it was strange: it was officially called the Day of Signing the Declaration of Sovereignty of the RSFSR, but the majority called it Independence Day, like a copy of the USA, which at one time separated from the British Empire - and from whom should Russia gain independence? In 2002 it was renamed Russia Day.

The St. Petersburg "United Russia" complied with the formality - it held primaries and decided on the party's candidate for the post of governor. Georgy Poltavchenko won “sensationally”. His competitors, and Poltavchenko himself, did not hide the fact that the event with the beautiful Western name of primaries was nothing more than a technical procedure.

Judge Tatyana Mikhailova of the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the teenager not guilty. Today in the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg the last court hearing took place in the case of charges against Nikita Leontyev, a teenager killed by police. This high-profile case lasted more than two years.

Grandfather Zyuganov, who remains the most alive of all the living, despite the fact that at the end of June he will turn seventy, took the initiative to rename St. Petersburg to Leningrad. In fact, it would be better if he renamed his native village Mymrino, Oryol region, and not the city where he never lived. However, I am not going to argue with Gennady Andreevich about names.