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June 5. Putin was asked about Navalny. He answered about Saakashvili

The main news

The press got a list of people whom the organizers of the attempt on Arkady Babchenko were allegedly going to kill in Ukraine. Photos of the list on two sheets of A4 format were published by the "Country.ua" publication: it contains 47 names - famous journalists, writers and bloggers. The Security Service of Ukraine was not confirmed, but they did not refute its authenticity.

The court in the Netherlands demanded to arrest the assets of Gazprom . This is necessary to execute the decision of the Stockholm arbitration, which previously ordered the Russian company to pay $ 2.6 million to the Ukrainian Naftogaz. Gazprom appealed, however, according to Naftogaz, this will not affect the process of immediate collection of debt.

The new Prime Minister of Italy proposed revising sanctions against Russia. Giuseppe Conte, who took office several days ago, expressed confidence that sanctions "can harm Russian civil society." The clause on the intention to achieve the abolition of anti -Russian sanctions was contained in the coalition agreement of the parties that formed the Italian government.

The election scenario of the mayor of Moscow will be similar to the Presidential scenario . As Vedomosti found out, special attention will be paid to the turnout - its authorities expect to bring to 60% (only 32% of voters voted five years ago). This will be done using polling stations for summer residents outside the city and an advertising campaign to inform voters.

Putin's interview to the Austrian television channel

The President of Russia on the eve of his visit to Austria (this is his first trip abroad from the moment of the next take office) gave a large interview with the Austrian television and radio company ORF. The journalist asked Putin a whole series of acute questions - from accusations against Russia in the crash of MH17 to failure to allow Alexei Navalny to the elections (the president said: “We do not want us to slip another, second, third or fifth Saakashvili”). Putin did not answer some questions essentially, some reacted openly irritably. We have collected the main thing from this conversation.

Moscow will spend more than 1.6 billion rubles on new granite borders

In Moscow again - the fourth year in a row - the borders are changing. On May 31, the authorities announced two tenders for the purchase of 272 kilometers of granite borders in the amount of 1 billion 110 million rubles. As it turns out, the city pays for these borders much more than their market value, and the price changes every year. If in 2016 it amounted to 2366 rubles per linear meter, then in 2017-already 4242 rubles, and this year it decreased slightly. Earn companies that are close to the city hall officials earn on these borders.

Apple spoke about the future iOS

In San Jose yesterday, an annual conference for the developers of WWDC, which is conducted by Apple, began. On the first day of the forum, company representatives traditionally talked about innovations in operating systems and applications - the new items will be directly represented in the fall. We have collected the most important of the two -hour story about the direction of development of iOS, MacOS, Watchos and TVS.

What else

• Bill Clinton Roman “The President’s Disappears” was published in the USA. The former head of state first wrote a work of art-before that he had four non-fiction books, including the memoirs of “My Life”. In the “President’s disappearance”, the plot is built around the fictional leader of the United States, faced with a large -scale cyberataka.
• The organizers of the Miss America beauty contest decided to exclude defiles in swimsuits from the program. Instead, the contestants will participate in discussions with judges.
• The American schoolgirl was unable to find a partner for graduation and came to an event with cardboard Danny Devito. The actor found out about this - and a few days later he came with a cardboard figure of a girl in a bar!
• Sony Pictures Entertainment released the first trailer for the crime drama “White Boy Rick” with Matthew McConahi in the title role. It was based on the real story of a man who first worked as a police informant, and then became a major drug dealer - and eventually was sentenced to life sentence. In Russia, the film will be released in January 2019.

Grigory Levchenko