Companions of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won quantitatively, but not qualitatively During the regional elections held in Italy on Sunday, the Democratic Party (PD) confirmed its leadership, however, losing an important region for it - Liguria - to the candidate of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.

Expertise 869 1 min. ... Leonid Polishchuk, Head of the Laboratory of Applied Analysis of Institutions and Social Capital, National Research University Higher School of Economics Data indicate a partial recovery of social capital in Russia after its sharp decline in the early 1990s. Social capital is usually understood as the ability of people to act together for a common goal.

Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu said that large-scale construction of military infrastructure is underway in the Arctic. According to the minister, construction has been underway since 2014. “Currently, work has been carried out on the islands of Kotelny, Wrangel, Alexandra Land, on the Severnaya and Novaya Zemlya archipelagos, as well as on Cape Schmidt.

Russian chess players Vladimir Kramnik and Valentina Gunina rose to sixth positions in the FIDE rankings, according to the organization’s website . Kramnik (2783 points) displaced compatriot Alexander Grischuk (2781) from sixth place; Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (2876) is in the lead.

The defense of the head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Petersburg Metro" stated that they were forced to remain silent As Kommersant learned, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR) prohibited the head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Petersburg Metro" Vladimir Garyugin, suspected of abuse of power, and his lawyer Vladimir Lvov from disclosing information about the materials of this criminal case.

What do the Skoda Superb and the Uffizi Gallery have in common? Dmitry Gronsky, photo Skoda The desire to see hidden meaning and even conspiracy theories in everything is, of course, a bad habit. But I can’t get rid of it, and that’s it! The first test drive of the new Skoda Superb was held in Florence. What does this mean? The fact that over the three generations that the model has survived, its creators have reached no less heights than Botticelli and Buonarroti, and now it is a real classic?

The Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) sent a statement to the head of the Russian Ministry of Justice, Alexander Konovalov, calling on him to cancel the decision to include the Dynasty and Liberal Mission foundations on the list of foreign agents. RIA Novosti reports this.

On May 30, a picket was held in Volgograd for the cancellation of the 35% increase in fees for children in kindergartens and against the reduction of kindergarten staff, initiated by parents of preschool children.

The increase in the ruble money supply in April 2015 compared to April 2014 was 6.4 percent , the Bank of Russia reported. The acceleration of the annual dynamics of the M2 monetary aggregate has been detected since March 2015 and is associated with an increase in bank deposits of households and companies, supported by the strengthening of the ruble and the preservation of positive ruble rates.

Moscow authorities are considering the possibility of issuing an electronic citizen card to all Muscovites, which will become an electronic analogue of a paper compulsory health insurance policy. M24.ru was told about this at the mayor's office. The card will also become the key to the electronic medical record, which is planned to be implemented in all clinics in the city by 2018.

The company stopped at minimum dividends Irkutskenergo, controlled by Oleg Deripaska’s structures, will still not pay record dividends. Shareholders will divide among themselves only a quarter of the net profit for 2014 - 2.53 billion rubles. Inter RAO, which owns 40% of the shares of the Irkutsk energy company, proposed to give the entire net profit to shareholders - 10 billion rubles, but Eurosibenergo did not find understanding.

On Wednesday, June 3, the next, third meeting of the Coordination Council of the Program for Preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be held in Rostov-on-Don, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov. According to the press service of the government of the Don region, during the meeting key issues related to the implementation of the preparation plan for the World Cup will be considered, and it is also planned to discuss the legacy of the championship.

Moods 339 1 min. ... The most dedicated workers are teachers and nurses. They change jobs less often than others: their average work experience in one organization is almost 5 years. Microbiologists and skilled workers are slightly inferior to them in perseverance (4.5 years in both specialties). On average, security guards and doctors stay in one place for just over 4 years.

The budget of the Ufa football club for the next season will be increased, the club's general director Shamil Gazizov told the R-Sport agency. He considered it premature to talk about numbers. Ufa's budget last season was about 600 million rubles. The main source of funding for the team was the Social Targeted Programs Fund, to which financial and industrial groups working in Bashkiria donate money. Ufa does not have a title sponsor.

The judges will have the final say The Constitutional Court (CC) is ready to consider a deputy’s request for the possibility of self-dissolution of the State Duma and holding early elections. This was stated by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin. The parliamentary corps does not yet have a unanimous position on postponing the 2016 elections from December to September. For - only the LDPR faction, against - the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.