How much longer will Russians allow their criminal Gang Masters to rule them like slaves ?
Do Russians enjoy being treated like domestic pets ?
When will Russians stop being cowards ?
What a disgusting story .
After years of lobbying and protesting, St. Petersburg is once again planning construction of the new Gazprom headquarters – a spiraling glass-and-steel skyscraper that will stand half a kilometer tall against the backdrop of Russia’s stout Northern capital. At a meeting yesterday the St. Petersburg Commission for Land Use and Development waived a 27-meter height restriction for the project in a 10-3 vote. Although protests from activists and international organizations such as UNESCO have halted the project in the past, it now looks set to go ahead.
As the city’s Commission for Land Use and Development made the decision to waive local height restrictions to make way for the tower, the few dissenting voices in the room saw an opportunity to raise political support among opposed residents. “If a party other than United Russia wins the December elections for the St. Petersburg parliament, the decision concerning the Lakhta Center will be reviewed just like the decision concerning its [predecessor] the Okhta Center, and the ‘waiver from [building] parameters,’ will be forbidden,” said Sergei Malkov, a Petersburg Duma deputy and one of the dissenting members of the commission, reported Kommersant. Originally named Gazprom Center, in 2007 the project was renamed Okhta Center, following the December 2010 decision to move the site of construction, the project’s name was changed to Lakhta Center.