PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - SEPT 6
MOSCOW, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The following are some stories in Russia's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Russia's Finance Ministry has drafted an order for state companies to pay as dividends 50 percent of their net profits calculated to IFRS standards.
- The Agriculture Ministry has decided to support big agribusiness companies which have no problem attracting investments, the daily writes.
- Russians who chose to spend summer vacations at home this year ensured record high revenues for local cinemas worth almost 13 billion roubles ($200.5 million), the daily reports.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- The number of Russians showing no interest in the election campaign preceding the Sept. 18 parliamentary election has reached 43 percent versus 31 in 2011, Levada pollsters say.
- Russia's subsidiary of Nissan Motors based in St Petersburg is launching exports of bumpers for Nissan X-Trails made in Europe.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- Russia could sign a deal on selling its ship-carried helicopters "Katran" to Egypt, according to military sources.
- The number of children suffering from various allergies in Moscow is growing every year due to bad ecology in the capital, a doctor from the city's emergency medical assistance says.
RBC
www.rbc
- The Levada public opinion pollster was swiftly put on the list of "foreign agents" after its report on the falling popularity of the ruling United Russia party, the daily writes, adding that procecutors had already checked several times the activity of the company after the much-disputed foreign agents law was passed in 2013.
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA
www.ng.ru
- The earnings of almost 16 percent of Russians in the first three months of the year were lower than the official level of poverty of 10,500 roubles ($162), according to the Rosstat state statistics agency.
($1 = 64.8400 roubles) (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova)
