Wooden development gives a special taste to the city space. In Riga, it is compared with pepper, and this spice was learned to value here. Petersburg is looking at the Riga experience of “snow tickets” (free travel in public transport for the non -use of a personal car at the time of abundant snowfalls), and representatives of the Duma of the Latvian capital are sent to the shores of the Neva to study the St. Petersburg experiment to refuse reagents.

The permanent director of the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (RGMAA), honorary polar explorer, scientist and writer Viktor Boyarsky must leave his post on February 1. Roshydromet (which now runs the museum) refused to renew the contract with Viktor Boyarsky, most likely because the director resisted transferring the RSMAA building to a small church parish (no more than 50 people) without providing the museum with an adequate replacement. Roshydromet did not share this position.

A quiet panic is brewing in St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg residents are ready to be treated for the flu with garlic and mothballs. After the New Year holidays, the incidence of influenza began to rise sharply. From 11 thousand cases per day, it very quickly jumped to 16-19 thousand. Since mid-December, 260 thousand people have already turned to doctors for help, exceeding the peak of the swine flu epidemic in the winter of 2009–2010.

On December 30, 2015, RosAccreditation deprived the SPb-Standard laboratory of the right to operate. The testing laboratory "SPb-Standard" issued certificates for many types of products: petroleum products, cars, plastics, household chemicals, cosmetics, tobacco, food products, food raw materials, etc. However, this laboratory did not physically exist, and all the certificates it issued, in fact, fictitious - after all, no tests were carried out. (See "New" dated November 30, 2015.

While the whole world is striving for the stars, we are building “Planetograd”. Californian astronomers have calculated with high probability that there is a new planet beyond Neptune, the ninth in the solar system. Now it has to be detected visually. Astronomers at the Pulkovo Observatory will most likely not be able to participate in the hunt for the planet: its luminosity reaches 22–25th magnitude, and through St.

The State Duma is churning out repressive laws one after another, and the space of our freedom is drying up. Sometimes, however, it seems that parliamentarians themselves do not understand the meaning of their feverish legislative activity. We are now prohibited from offending the feelings of believers, promoting separatism, non-traditional sexual relationships among minors, using specific vocabulary in the media, books and films, and belittling the heroism of our ancestors.