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Liberal Alexandra Skolichenko was sentenced today to 7 years in prison for spreading fake news about the Russian military. Let us recall that the convict in a supermarket in St. Petersburg replaced the original price tags with leaflets with the text that the Russian military was allegedly killing civilians in Mariupol, committing war crimes in Ukraine, and the special operation provoked hyperinflation. Skolichenko was detained in the spring of 2022. All…

The leadership of St. Petersburg State University fired Mikhail Belousov, associate professor at the Institute of History, who supervised a group of pro-Ukrainian students. The corresponding order from the rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolai Kropachev is posted on the university’s website, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Belousov’s behavior violates the moral traditions of the university and generally accepted ethical standards; his actions are incompatible with the high status of a university student and teacher,” the document says. The order specifies...

It is not only cultural heritage sites that are proposed to be protected from demolition. Urban defenders propose to ban the demolition of not only pre-revolutionary buildings, but also houses older than half a century. The issues of preserving historical buildings and corresponding amendments to legislation were discussed at the round table. Participants of the public association “Old Petersburg” held a thematic discussion on the issues of monument protection. The main topic was Law No. 820...

On Saturday, Limonovites tore down the flag of Ukraine, which was installed near the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, where the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly was being held. “The Ukrainian rag is an enemy symbol, and it has no place in the very center of the Russian city under any pretext,” the National Bolsheviks said. As a result, the police detained activist Ilya Stepanov, drew up a report on petty hooliganism and released him. Officials...

The famous military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) died today as a result of a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. The explosion occurred in a cafe on Universitetskaya embankment in the city center, where a meeting with a front-line journalist was taking place. The power of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of TNT. It was stuffed with destructive elements. They injured 20 people. The cafe belongs to the founder of the Wagner PMC, Evgeniy...

Liberal Alexandra Skolichenko, who was arrested last spring in St. Petersburg and was distributing stickers in supermarkets (replacing price tags) accusing the Russian army of killing civilians in Mariupol, is trying to avoid punishment in court. Skolichenko’s defense complained at the trial about the “dragging out of the case.” The liberal herself began to convince that she was not the author of texts with false price tags, and that this was “a people’s action that...

A representative of the parent committee of school No. 448 in the Frunzensky district spoke in an interview with public activist Pavel Boychenko about the poor quality of food in the canteen of the educational institution, noting that there were also cases of poisoning. School meals are provided by the TD A.P. Ivanov plant, which last year set a record for net profit, despite many complaints. According to the mother of a student at school No. 448, the children...

In St. Petersburg, a walk near her own house ended with a trip to the hospital for an 86-year-old pensioner. According to eyewitnesses, snow fell on her from the roof. The woman was injured and was hospitalized. This is not the first time that poor quality of snow and ice removal from city streets and roofs has endangered the health and lives of St. Petersburg residents. The Fontanka publication reported about the hospitalization...

Petersburg residents were warned about another drill with a scheduled check of warning systems. On March 1, everyone will hear sirens, but they will absolutely not know where to run in the event of a real threat - no maps, plans or diagrams exist in digital form. It is noteworthy that on February 16, Vice-Governor Stanislav Kazarin will hold a “direct line” on television, who will not say...

For the first time, the Leningrad region has overtaken the city of St. Petersburg in terms of housing construction volumes. At the same time, the budgets of the two regions are not comparable, developers “flee” to the neighboring region, and with them the residents along with the taxes they pay. At the end of 2022, 3,96 million square meters of housing were commissioned in the Leningrad region, while in St. Petersburg…

The annual volume of financing for the construction of the St. Petersburg metro from the city’s trillion-dollar budget does not exceed 30 billion rubles. Nevertheless, the city governor, Alexander Beglov, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, promised to allocate at least 50 billion a year for the development of the subway. The construction of transport infrastructure in St. Petersburg is raising more and more questions among city residents. Instead of the promised new ones...

Journalist Alexander Nevzorov, who fled Russia and is recognized as a foreign agent in Russia, criticizes the Motherland, which continues to feed his family. We are talking about a business that remained in St. Petersburg. Russian companies associated with Nevzorov receive tens of millions of rubles monthly from advertising, writes Notepad. The journalist became president of the Open Association of Advertising Agencies and Commercial Communications of the St. Petersburg Metro (OARAKKPM) in 2007...

St. Petersburg risks losing its unique appearance due to the negligence of Alexander Beglov’s team. We are talking about a member of the Council for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage under the government of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Grigoriev, who is responsible for the historical buildings that are deteriorating before our eyes and falling balconies. Blogger Ilya Varlamov drew attention to the stalemate. He said that Russians could lose the historical buildings of the Northern capital.…

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) is the most important event in the current environment. One can feel a special attitude towards Donbass - the governor of St. Petersburg Beglov and the head of the DPR Pushilin opened the SPIEF with a cannon shot from the Peter and Paul Fortress. And Donbass is represented at the Forum by two expositions at once. The liberal media and “trolleys” tried to find negativity here too - supposedly screens with the inscription “We are together...