 The June celebration of the graduation from school, the Scarlet Sails (a part of the White Nights Festival), rose to a new scale under Matviyenko and began to be broadcast nationwide on Petersburg – Channel 5.The Saint Petersburg Carnivals on the day of the city, 27 May, also became much grander.The new construction in already heavily built-up areas was a point of continuous criticism during Matviyenko's governorship.