Anonymous threats over the phone allegedly caused the cancellation of Andrei Makarevich's April concert at the Palace of Culture. Lensovet. The administration of the Palace of Culture contacted law enforcement agencies, but did not wait for the results of the investigation and refused the artist.

The reconstruction project of the Mikhailovsky Palace is evaluated as an unreasonably expensive, dangerous and illegal idea. By the end of March, the World Bank must decide whether it is involved in the co -financing of the project. Information that for the previously approved option, a completely different version is issued, consistent with violation of the law, will hardly add arguments in favor of a positive decision.

Can the current regime with its sophisticated mechanisms of marginalizing the opposition, brainwashing the population and creating the ideology of a besieged fortress that unites the crowds collapse? Many expected that this would happen under the pressure of mass protests in the winter of 2011–2012.

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 March 8, a rally for women's rights was held on the Champ de Mars. 200 people took part in the action. Slogans and chants were voiced to the beat of drums. Photo