PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Nov 20
MOSCOW, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The following are some of the stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Russia is ready to ease tension with the West on the condition that it acknowledges Russia shares a special responsibility with the United States for maintenance of international stability and countering global challenges - these are the signals Russia's leadership is sending to the West, the daily says.
- Russia needs guarantees that no one will consider it possible to push Ukraine into NATO, the daily says, citing presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
- The number of people who are proud of living in Russia has grown to 86 percent over the last 12 months, according to the Levada Centre pollster.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- The decline of the rouble helped push up industrial output, which rose by 2.9 percent in October year-on-year.
- The government might support lifting its ban on advertising cigarettes and alcohol in newspapers and magazines to help publishers survive the current economic problems.
- The retail price of buckwheat has grown by 27.5 percent from the start of the month and the government is ready to tap state reserves to stabilise the market.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- The government is said to be considering ways to allow Russia's banks to open their offices in foreign states on the territories of which there are many Russian speakers facing a possible humanitarian catastrophe, as in Donbass in Ukraine.
- Russians could start studying the "psychiatry of the human being" at secondary schools as doctors are worried by a growth in the number of cases of depression.
(Reporting By Tatiana Ustinova)
