|
New version of the Gazprom-Tower is still illegal |
|
St. Petersburg - 2009-02-13 - D. Davydov |
|
The department of public prosecution which had been requested to examine the the new bulding-development ans land-use regulations of St. Petersburg decided that the revised project of the Gazprom-Skyscraper (just 100 meters high) is still illegal. |
|
Source: http://www.voopik.spb.ru |
|
St. Petersburg's new landfill will be probably based on bones |
|
St. Petersburg - 2009-01-10 - D. Davydov |
|
Against the background of the city’s increasing waste problem the administration of St. Petersburg plans a new landfill in the range of the Siniavino Hills (Kirovsky district of the Leningrad area). In 1941 - 1944 this territory was a scene of bloody combats between the Soviet Troops (54th, 8th, 2nd Armies), which defended Leningrad, and the German Armed Forces. During the Third Offensive of Siniavino (August – October 1942) the soviet troops lost more than 113 thousands soldiers; during the “Iskra” Operation (January 1943) more than 100 thousands soviet soldiers were killed in action. The administration of St. Petersburg alleges that the 115 hectares large parcel where the waste dump will soon arise does not hold any historical monuments or military gravesites. The private search parties who make excavations in this area demonstrate the exact opposite. |
|
Source: http://www.kp.ru |
|
St. Petersburg's Governor names persons in charge |
|
St. Petersburg - 2008-06-19 - D. Davydov |
|
In course of a conference of the City Council for Protection of the Cultural Heritage the Governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, confessed some grave urbanistic mistakes such as construction of the tower blocks "Montblanc" and "Finansist". The increasing interest of St. Petersburg's administration in the protection of the historic cityscape might be associated with the list of nearly 100 recently demolished monuments which has been newly published by the citizen's initiative "Save St. Petersburg". At the same time, the Governor charged not only the administration and the investors with the detected violations of the planning law. She also placed the responsibility for that on the architecturally interested public. |
|
Source: http://news.ntv.ru |
|
New turn in the Rink Case |
|
St. Petersburg - 2008-03-04 - D. Davydov |
|
In the Rink Case the City Court of St. Petersburg now allowed the appeal of the federal and the local authorities for protection and preservation of monuments against the foregone judgment of the Kujbyshev District Court. According to the appellate judges, the rink does not impair the historical ensemble of the Palace Square and, thus, the claimant's constitutional right for the access to the cultural heritage is not violated. The lawsuit's major difficulty is the legal status of the Palace Square and the Alexander Column, which was completely enclosed by the rink. The federal and local authorities brought forward the argument that the Square is actually not listed as a historical and cultural monument and reasoned that there would be no necessity to protect it. Besides that the documents concerning the legal status of the Alexander Column as a monument and including the legal requirements on its environment date back to the soviet times so that their binding character is rather disputable. However the claimants will not abandon the lawsuit. They are going to appeal against the Court's decision to the Federal Court and to the European Court for Human Rights. |
|
Source: http://www.zaks.ru |
