Legislative Assembly deputy Maxim Reznik testified before the Investigative Committee. Anonymous activists complained about him, who were touched to the quick by a phrase uttered by the parliamentarian on January 15 at a rally in support of the Navalny brothers. The authors of the appeal saw extremism in the parliamentarian’s words (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The inventory of monuments on the Petrograd side revealed several fundamental problems requiring political solutions There are almost 9,000 buildings in St. Petersburg - objects of cultural heritage (CHH). No one knows what condition each of them is in. Of course, the Committee for the Protection of Monuments (KGIOP) has its own data, but they constantly need clarification.

One of the most discussed transport projects in the media is the Poklonnogorsk overpass. In November, traffic along Poklonnogorskaya Street was closed for the construction of a viaduct over the Vyborg railway tracks. As a result, Engels Avenue and the adjacent streets, which at the best of times were famous for endless traffic jams, came to a complete standstill. And there is no end in sight. They promised to open the street in early March, and the viaduct itself would be completed in 2015.

The celebration of the anniversary of Joseph Brodsky opened up old wounds of those yearning for the “iron hand” Just before May Day, deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly took the initiative to return the article “for parasitism” to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Their impulse was picked up by patriotic citizens who remembered the case of the “parasite Brodsky.” Letters were sent to Smolny, to the St.

May 16, 2015 marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of Olga Berggolts Olga Fedorovna kept her diaries extremely openly, without self-censorship or editing, and called these entries “a painful book of joy and sorrow.” For a long time, the notebooks were kept in closed storage, first by order of government agencies, and then by the will of the heirs. Much has been said about O. Berggolts’s ascetic work on the radio during the war; her siege poems have been included in anthologies.

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”) On May 15, the sky of Solyany Lane was decorated with 336 colorful umbrellas. For the first time, such an art installation appeared in Portugal in the town of Agueda, and now it will take place in St. Petersburg for a month.

The library for the blind is looking for volunteers so that people deprived of sight can hear the books of Mikhail Sholokhov, Daniil Granin... Stesha doesn’t lose her way. Reads well. But I still don’t understand anything. Stesha too. “If it were some kind of work of art, I would rather read it,” the girl says shyly, justifying herself, leaving the recording booth. Returns to the sound engineer a thick volume of research by French scientists. – And I have Pushkin’s fairy tales with me...