The World Bank presented a new forecast for the growth of world GDP and Russia's gross domestic product. According to the updated forecast, in 2019 the Russian GDP will grow by 1.2%. This is 0.2 percentage points less than the World Bank forecast in April. The World Bank has revised down its global economic growth forecast. The World Bank now expects global GDP to grow by 2.6%. The Ministry of Economic Development expects that by the end of 2019, GDP will grow by 1.3%.

The widow of a Chernobyl engineer remembers, Yandex faces off with the FSB, and luggage handlers walk off the job at Sheremetyevo Tuesday, June 4, 2019 This day in history: 58 years ago, on June 4, 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sparked the “Berlin Crisis” by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany that would end American, British, and French access to East Berlin.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Prague to protest, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who is suspected of a conflict of interest, Reuters reports. According to the organizers, 120,000 people gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square. This protest action became one of the largest in Prague since 1989, when hundreds of thousands of people protested in Prague during the " Velvet Revolution ".

The board of the international society " Memorial " has announced pressure on participants of the school competition "Man in History. Russia - 20th Century", which is being held by the organization. Memorial reported that in most of the 24 regions where the winners of the competition live, preventive talks are held with the laureates' teachers, in which local officials and FSB officers participate. Sometimes schoolchildren are invited directly to the talks, human rights activists say.

The widow of a Chernobyl engineer remembers her husband and describes returning to work at the power plant after the 1986 nuclear accident Anatoly Sitnikov In 1985, Anatoly Sitnikov became the deputy chief engineer charged with operating the first and second reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. During the accident in April 1986, Sitnikov examined the power station’s exploded fourth reactor, receiving a lethal dose of radiation. He died several weeks later in Moscow.

The defendants in the criminal case " New Greatness " have been included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. The Telegram channel "Flywheel of Political Repressions" was the first to draw attention to this. The list includes nine people: Anna Pavlikova, Maria Dubovik, Ruslan Kostylenkov, Petr Karamzin, Vyacheslav Kryukov, Sergey Gavrilov, Pavel Rebrovsky, Rustam Rustamov, Maksim Roshchin.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay more than 1.64 million euros to the relatives of 20 residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia who disappeared in the early 2000s during special operations by the Russian military. This is stated in three decisions court issued on June 4. The court ruled that the applicants should receive 1.47 million euros in respect of non-pecuniary damage and another 170 thousand euros in respect of pecuniary damage.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky told Interfax that the distributor of the Elton John film Rocketman presented an edited version of the film for distribution, relying on the law. “In a state governed by the rule of law, it should not be the private aesthetic and sexual preferences of individuals, but the law, as it should be in Russia now,” Medinsky said. Scenes with drugs, same-sex sex and male kisses were cut from the film Rocketman in Russian distribution.

Five people became co-chairs of the election headquarters of the acting governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, Fontanka reports. The co-chairs, in particular, included Zenit head coach Sergei Semak and director of the Peterhof Museum-Reserve Elena Kalnitskaya. Fontanka notes that on the morning of June 4, signatures in support of Beglov began to be collected in St. Petersburg. Employees of budgetary institutions reported that management asks them to sign in support of the acting governor.

Moscow passengers spend hours waiting for bags after salary cuts led airport luggage loaders to quit en masse Valery Sharifulin / TASS Over the weekend, the luggage transport systems in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport collapsed , and passengers found themselves waiting for hours to pick up their suitcases. Numerous departing flights also experienced substantial delays.

Champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov will hold the next fight against American Dustin Poirier. The fight will take place on September 7 in Abu Dhabi, according to the UFC on Twitter. Khabib Nurmagomedov fought his last fight on October 6, 2018 in Las Vegas. He defeated Irishman Conor McGregor for the UFC lightweight title. The bout grossed over $86 million.

On June 4, the last series of Chernobyl , the mini-series, Craig Mazin, who, even before the end, became one of the most successful series of our time, at HBO. Immediately after the release of the last, fifth series, Maisin published on Twitter a list of books and films that were inspired when working on the series. It entered the Chernobyl prayer Svetlana Aleksievich, the “Chernobyl notebook” Grigory Medvedev and even the film about the Great Patriotic War “Go and watch”.

Transneft has criticized the statement by Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, who said that oil contamination in the Druzhba pipeline is damaging the Russian oil industry. Transneft called Sechin’s words about consumers being forced to replace Russian oil with other routes untrue. The company emphasized that in the first five months of 2019, oil exports to non-CIS countries via the Transneft system increased by 3.1 million tons.

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, added several social media posts dedicated to the explosions at the defense plant in Dzerzhinsk to the register of information prohibited in the Russian Federation.

Answers to the main questions about the dispute of "Yandex" with state bodies Shutterstock.com What did the FSB demand from Yandex? According to RBC, the special service requested from the service the session keys of Yandex.Do and Yandex.Disk - they allow you to decipher all the data transmitted between Yandex and a specific user within the framework of one session (for example, the browser tab is open).