PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Oct 27
MOSCOW, Oct 27 (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
www.vedomosti.ru
The newspaper says billionaire Viktor Vekselberg and his partners in Sual Partners plan to buy a 12 percent stake in aluminium giant Rusal for about $700 million. The stake currently belongs to tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group.
The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will consider amendments to the tax code next week, the daily says. It says the changes would increase the tax burden on companies by curbing their ability to reduce their taxable profits.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
A shortage of new-style excise stamps required to import foreign alcohol has triggered a significant decline in such imports in the third quarter of 2016, the daily reports.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin complains in an interview about how countries such as Ukraine and Latvia are violating the rights of ethnic Russians. He denies Moscow has any plans to use ethnic Russians abroad to stir up unrest.
($1 = 62.2597 Rub) (Reporting by Margarita Popova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
