“Bandits have seized power in our native St. Petersburg!” How security forces persecute defenders of an architectural monument
Security guards hired to demolish the VNIIB building On January 8, in St. Petersburg, the building of the All-Union Research Institute of Pulp and Paper Industry, which was defended for 7 years by city defenders and residents of the Vyborg region, was demolished. The demolition was accompanied by intense confrontation between its defenders and numerous hired guards, the detention of activists, and the initiation of a dozen administrative cases and one criminal case.
