PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - JULY 28
MOSCOW, July 28 (Reuters) - The following are some stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
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- Russia has taken measures to beef up its Southern Military District in response to heightened military and political tensions on the country's south-west flank, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday.
- Russia's Customs Chief Andrei Belyaninov has spent most of his working life in the state sector yet his income has more than tripled in the last six years, the daily says. It says his wife had increased her own revenues more than six-fold over the same period.
KOMMERSANT
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- The Defence Ministry is planning to deploy a new optoelectronic surveillance system by 2019, the daily says, referring to an agreement reached between Russia's Space Forces and the State Research and Production Space Centre in Samara to build new satellites.
- Representatives from a range of different confessions -- Islam, Judaism and Buddhism -- are up in arms over attempts by the Russian Orthodox Church to introduce the mandatory teaching of Orthodox culture in secondary schools.
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA
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- Russia's security forces suspect that about 3,000 Russian citizens may have fought in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq last year alongside Islamic militants, FSB Chief Alexander Bortknikov said on Wednesday.
- Fifty four Russian banks have lost their licences since the beginning of the year, the daily says.
IZVESTIA
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- The Finance Ministry has told the State Space agency Roscosmos that state spending on space projects will be cut by 15 percent in the next two years. (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
