PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - March 11
MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) - The following are some stories in Russia's newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Gazprom's 2014 dividends will come in some 30 percent lower than for the previous year at some 122 billion roubles, the paper cites a finance ministry forecast.
- Sales of luxury cars grew in Russia in February against the backdrop of a sharp fall in overall car sales, the paper writes.
- The Russian railways monopoly RZhD wants to raise 145 billion roubles ($2.30 billion) by issuing securities and shares to dedicated buyers, the paper says.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Russia's business ombudsman Boris Titov wants to amend the country's criminal code to offer more lenient sentencing for economic crime if the perpetrators compensate for the damage caused, the paper says.
- Russia eyes creating its own cyber security system, the paper cites Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin as saying.
($1 = 62.9625 roubles) (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova)
