The court denied compensation to the injured Olympic athlete. She demanded to punish the doctor who promised to put her back on her feet. On February 18, the Nevsky Court of St. Petersburg made a decision on the claim of Maria Chaadaeva (Komissarova) against the clinic of Dr. Evgeniy Blum. The athlete demanded the return of 51 million rubles spent on treatment and five million in moral damages. The court awarded 40 thousand rubles in compensation and...

Journalists were shown poems for which St. Petersburg resident Pavel Zlomnov is accused of justifying terrorism. The legal community united in his defense. The Zlomnov family, hereditary St. Petersburg lawyers, already has four criminal cases. No, we are not talking about processes in which they defend other people, but about cases brought against themselves. Museum specialist Pavel Zlomnov spent a year in pre-trial detention center No. 6 “Gorelovo” on charges of illegal weapons trafficking.

The Smolninsky court of St. Petersburg was unable to begin consideration of the merits of the case against Valery Izrailit, a businessman who built a port in Ust-Luga, a multimillionaire, a friend of “Putin’s friends.” He is accused of fraud, money laundering and illegal currency transactions. Valery Izrailit was arrested at the end of December 2016.

The acting governor was ahead of the Legislative Assembly deputies and turned four more city sites into Hyde parks. This week, Alexander Beglov added four more positions to the list of city Hyde parks. Now in St. Petersburg there are eight places where, theoretically, up to 500 people can rally without notifying the authorities.