Photo: Sobesednik.ru discussed with a political strategist what effect the government’s campaign against Alexei Navalny will have. Over the past couple of days, information has circulated online that the Kremlin has decided to begin systematic (including campaign) work to discredit Alexei Navalny. The internal political department of the presidential administration will supposedly be responsible for this. However, confirmation of the rumors did not take long to arrive.

How to break the fashion for crazy races through city streets with impunity in expensive cars? Lawyers answer Photo: Residents of large cities are already accustomed to racing in the streets // Global Look Press/Oleksiy Maksymenko/imagebroker.com Sobesednik.ru found out from experts how to break the fashion for crazy , unpunished races through city streets in expensive cars.

Photo: Yarovaya turned out to be the most active in the State Duma // Global Look Press Political scientists have calculated the coefficient of performance (COP) of State Duma deputies, Sobesednik.ru has learned. Last week, the famous shocker Vitaly Milonov introduced to the Duma a bill on registration in social networks strictly according to the passport. Experts immediately ridiculed this initiative. Do the people's representatives have any legislative sense at all?

Photo: Dmitry Medvedev // Global Look Press Leonid Radzikhovsky - about the performance and nerves of Dmitry Medvedev at the government hour in the Duma and Navalny’s democracy. On April 19, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reported to State Duma deputies on the government’s work for 2016. The prime minister spoke with parliamentarians for about four hours.

Russians vacationing in sanatoriums and resorts in the Russian Federation were offered a tax deduction of up to 120 thousand rubles. Senator Igor Fomin told Izvestia that such a proposal was put forward by the Federation Council (SF) Committee on Social Policy at the last meeting of the Ministry of Health working group on preparing the State Strategy for the development of the sanatorium and resort complex of the Russian Federation.

Photo: The ECHR ordered Russia to pay about 3 million euros to the plaintiffs in the Beslan terrorist attack case // Global Look Press Sobesednik.ru spoke with a representative of the “Mothers of Beslan” about the ECHR decision in favor of the relatives of the victims of the tragedy. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Russia to pay about 3 million euros to the plaintiffs in the Beslan terrorist attack case.

Every tenth resident of our country may face breast and ovarian cancer, according to geneticists. Experts from the Genotek Medical Genetics Center analyzed the genome of Russian women and came to not very pleasant conclusions. 11% of samples contained mutations that increased the likelihood of developing breast and ovarian tumors . However, scientists do not recommend that Russian women get scared right away.

The weather in the capital on April 20 will be dry and sunny, but precipitation is expected in the east of Moscow. According to weather forecasters, the temperature in Moscow will reach 5 degrees Celsius on Thursday, April 20, the Meteonovosti portal reports. The wind is expected to be northerly, at a speed of 5-10 meters per second. The pressure in the city will be 756 mmHg. It is noted that weather forecasters do not rule out cloudiness and light precipitation in the east of Moscow.

Moscow budget expenditures will be increased by 96.5 billion rubles due to the program for the renovation of dilapidated housing . Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that five-story buildings will not be demolished in the Khamovniki district. As Interfax reports with reference to the Moscow City Duma, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin submitted a bill to amend the Moscow budget for 2017 to the capital's parliament.

On April 20, an aerial bomb from the Second World War was found in the southwest of the capital during repair work. As Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the capital's department of the Russian National Guard, an aircraft shell from the Great Patriotic War was found during repair work on Dmitry Ulyanov Street in the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow at about 11:30 on Thursday. The repair services reported the discovery to the Russian National Guard.

Rospotrebnadzor is introducing amendments to parliament on the liability of Internet aggregators of goods and services. As Mikhail Orlov, deputy head of the department , told Parliamentary Newspaper, “information intermediaries” that provide information about sellers and the possibility of prepayment of goods or services for the user will be required to provide a ten-day guarantee for payment of compensation.

The driver of a foreign car in Moscow tried to cause an accident in order to prevent the ambulance from leaving. As Life reported on April 20, the ambulance was moving in the far left lane with special signals turned on. A foreign car was driving in front of her. Despite the ambulance signals, the passenger car did not give way, but, on the contrary, at some point braked, trying to provoke an accident.

Senator Sergei Tsekov called the comparison of Russia with a crocodile, which was used by Petro Poroshenko, offensive. “It’s amazing that the president of another state says such things. And before, the presidents of Ukraine made very harsh statements regarding Russia, starting with Leonid Kravchuk [the first president of Ukraine], but they were not so offensive,” Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, told Lenta.ru.

Co-owner of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson became the richest entrepreneur in Russia according to Forbes. Forbes magazine published a ranking of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. The first place in the list was taken by Leonid Mikhelson, co-owner of the private gas production company Novatek, with a fortune of $18.4 billion. It is noted that in 2016 the rating was also headed by Mikhelson. Second place went to the owner of Severstal Alexey Mordashov. His fortune is estimated at $17.5 billion.

Sources reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to completely separate Donbass from Ukraine . Bloomberg, citing three sources close to the Russian authorities, reported that Vladimir Putin is going to separate the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic from Ukraine through integration with Russia. At the same time, it is emphasized that there is no official recognition or annexation of the territories of the self-proclaimed republics in Russia’s plans.