Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St.

The deadline for submitting signatures for nomination to the St. Petersburg parliament has ended Within the next ten days, election commissions must verify the submitted documents. Not all signature sheets will be subject to detailed analysis, but only 20% of autographs from party lists and 25% from single-mandate members. Even if 10% of all collected signatures are found to be defective, the defamed candidate or party will not be allowed to participate in the elections.

It is two years since the announcement of the policy towards import substitution. On August 6, 2014, a presidential decree was issued banning the import of products from Western countries. Since then, our domestic production has only been falling, and “wise import substitutes” are still looking for the bottom to which the Russian economy should sink. Import substitution was not a 100% gamble.