PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - JUNE 29
MOSCOW, June 29 (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
- Russia raised vodka output by 30 percent in the past two months which could have resulted from police attacks in February on the market of illicit alcohol, the daily writes.
- Moscow city authorities are launching a new campaign to destroy illegally built buildings in the capital. More than a hundred of such constructions were already demolished in February, triggering a wave of protests among their owners, the daily says.
- AFK Sistema investment holding controlled by Russia's billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov is planning to invest 9 billion roubles ($140.25 million) in launching 14 dairy farms in Rotsov region in the next six years.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- The former president of Russia's mainly Moslem republic of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiyev, has asked senators to refrain from supporting a new anti-terror bill, saying that it could infringe on the religious freedom of the Moslem population.
- Business ombudsman Boris Titov has spoken out against a hasty approval of a new law on trade and asked senators to consider its possible consequences before voting for it.
- More than 40 percent of Russia's families said in May that their financial state had worsened due to inflation and lower incomes, according to a survey by VTsIOM pollsters.
- Russia's police detained a citizen of Belarus offering his "assistance" in winning cases in the international arbitration court in Stockholm for one million euros.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- Russia's Roscosmos space agency is restoring a team of specialists who developed the Soviet-era Energia-Buran space shuttle in order to build a new shuttle spacesgip.
- Italy's Liguria province will most likely vote on Wednesday to recognise Crimea as part of Russia, the daily reports.
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA
www.ng.ru
- The problem of social injustice is growing in Russia, the daily says referring to the Levada pollster report that almost 16 percent of the population is living beyond the poverty level.
- Russia could face a capital outflow of up to $10 billion and its domestic travel market could lose up to 3 million tourists if Russia "opened" Turkey for its tourist, the daily says.
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA
www.rg.ru
- Police confiscated several kilogrammes of jewellery during a recent raid on the house of a former top manager of Vneshprombank. The raid was part of an investigation into an illegal withdrawal of 200 billion roubles from the bank whose licence was revoked in January.
- A court in the Ural town of Kamyshlov has ruled to arrest its mayor Mikhail Chukharev on charges of abuse of office and causing damage to the region worth 11 million roubles ($171,420).
- The European Union could drop English as one of its official languages as a result of Britain's vote to leave the community, the daily writes. ($1 = 64.1700 roubles) (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova)
