A year ago, few imagined how much expectations and hopes would change in 2022. But some desires are also relevant. We asked you if something came true that you made for the last New Year. Read that the 2022th readers of Paper brought good. A Hallelujah - My desire, it seems, did not come true as I expected - asked: "If only there was no war." It was necessary to ask: "If only there was no one." Evgenia Insarova - I dreamed of trying to live in another country - Done.

In the first minutes of 2023, near Palace Square, the police detained several men who tried to blow up the firecrackers, the correspondent of Paper reports. We tell how the New Year's Eve was held in the center of St. Petersburg. At about nine in the evening of December 31, the police suddenly blocked part of Nevsky Prospekt from Kazan Street to Palace. The crowd of walking police officers announced that there was a “inspection of the territory”, and offered to go to Palace Square bypassing.