The annual ranking of the best universities in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds included 48 Russian universities. The ranking became the largest in the history of its compilation — a total of 1,300 educational institutions were included. The best Russian university was Moscow State University, which took 78th place. Five more Russian universities made it into the top 300 of the ranking: St.

The Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow refused to rename one of the streets of the city in honor of the former mayor Yuri Luzhkov. It is reported by RIA Novosti. An initiative group of Moscow residents asked to rename 4th 8 March Street in honor of Luzhkov, located in the Airport area, at the end of April. Explaining the refusal, the mayor's office noted that the street chosen for renaming should not have a name - it could be an unnamed or planned passage.

High alert regime introduced near St. Petersburg due to dispute over responsibility for radioactive waste VKontakte group “Kuzmolovo Life” The town of Kuzmolovo On the morning of June 8, the Leningrad region’s governor announced that a municipality located about 30 kilometers from St. Petersburg was being put on high alert, due to a dispute involving radioactive waste.

Roskomnadzor will analyze the broadcast of the Muz-TV award, which took place on June 4, for violations of the law banning propaganda of homosexual relations among minors. The agency explained that information that “promotes non-traditional sexual relations” can be broadcast on the air only at night and only with the “18+” mark. The Muz-TV award was shown in the evening with the label "6+".

Where can I fly to rest right now (while Türkiye is closed). As in just a year, the regime in Russia has become worse and more meaningless. Why the Internet has broken today Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Let's start it with good news: punk rock is alive. True, alive in Chita.

The Russian Football Union sent an appeal to UEFA because of the form of the Ukrainian national team, which will be used at Euro 2020. The communications service of the RFU explained that in the letter "they drew attention to the use of political motives in the form of the Ukrainian national team", noting that this violates the principles of UEFA prohibiting political speech. Football is a sport that should always remain out of politics.

At least six members of the law enforcement agencies took part in the primaries of United Russia, although by law they did not have the right to do so. Mediazona writes about this, which conducted a joint investigation with the Scanner Project.

Sources say Dmitry Medvedev may head United Russia’s party list for the 2021 State Duma elections Scanpix / LETA As this fall’s State Duma elections draw nearer, sources close to Putin’s administration and the United Russia leadership are saying that Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and prime minister, is set to head the ruling party’s list. Though Medvedev has been United Russia’s leading candidate in past parliamentary elections, his current political ratings are quite low.

Darya Navalnaya received the Geneva Forum on Human Rights award instead of Alexey Navalny. And gave a speech about him Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was awarded an international human rights award in absentia — the Courage Prize of the Geneva Forum on Human Rights and Democracy . The award was received on behalf of the politician by his daughter Darya Navalnaya. At the award ceremony, she gave a speech about her father. Here is the text of the speech (you can watch it here ).

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The list of “United Russia” in the elections to the State Duma will be headed by Dmitry Medvedev - despite the fact that he is an unpopular politician. Why? Since 2007, the Russian authorities have not allowed 120 thousand people to the election, or seven percent of all nominated candidates. This conclusion was reached by the publication “Important Stories”, analyzing these movements “Voice”, CEC and parties.

Billionaire and former senator from Buryatia Vitaly Malkin started a tiktok called "Billionaire Philosopher". "I'm brainwashing you 🧠 - you're not ready to hear this," the account description reads. And many will indeed not be ready: in his blog, Malkin talks about the new ethics, equality, lust, absolute values ​​and loneliness. In general, wisdom for every taste.

Rosneft has filed a lawsuit against AS Rus Media (the publisher of the Russian Forbes) and the publication's journalist Dmitry Yakovenko. Dozhd writes about this with reference to the corresponding card in the Electronic Justice system. The essence of the claim filed in the Moscow Arbitration Court and the claimed amount of damages are not disclosed in the card. Yakovenko himself confirmed the information about the lawsuit.

Under St. Petersburg introduced an increased readiness regime due to a dispute between a chemical enterprise with the Federal Property Management Agency Kuzmolovo Life community in VKontakte village Kuzmolovo The Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko from 10 a.m.

Lawyer Maria Aismont - about the courts, Navalny and the authorities. New output of the Utuub show "Tell Gordeeva" Yetuub-show “Generally Gordeeva” has become an independent project (like “Radio Dolin”) since May and is released on the channel of the same name. In addition to the name of the channel (if you have not yet had time to subscribe to it, now is the time) nothing has changed-Katerina Gordeeva still interviews from the heroes who are very interesting.

Lawyers from the “29 team” fought with the FSB in the courts for years, and now they defend Ivan Safronov and the FBK.