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

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- 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

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- 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)

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