Tower Opponents Wrap It in Ribbons
The St. Petersburg Times
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Sergey Chernov / The St. Petersburg Times
Opponents of the Okhta Center hold up pictures of historic views of St. Petersburg they claim will be threatened by the tower.
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Preservationist groups Living City and ECOM Center of Expertise launched a campaign against the planned 403-meter-tall Gazprom Tower, officially known as Okhta Center, with an event featuring artist Dmitry Shagin and rock musician Vladimir Rekshan on Saturday. Called Blue Ribbon, the campaign included distributing blue ribbons for locals and visitors to wear, symbolizing the clear sky endangered by the project, as well as distributing flyers informing them about the issue. In an outdoor theatrical performance on Saturday, an activist dressed in costume resembling the tower was symbolically wrapped up in blue ribbons by participants of the event. “The Blue Ribbon Campaign is oriented at citizens who care about preserving St. Petersburg’s cultural heritage, to help them identify each other and demonstrate [visually] that the struggle goes on,” Living City activist Pyotr Zabirokhin said by phone on Monday. “Blue ribbons are easy to get, anybody can get one, and we’re hoping for a chain reaction. The campaign will grow spontaneously, under its own impetus.” St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko signed a decree exempting the Okhta Center from the city’s height restriction law last month.
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