PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Dec 1
MOSCOW, Dec 1 (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 appointment of Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Oreshkin as the new head of the economy ministry might be a step towards merging the two ministries, the daily says, citing experts.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
The government approved spending 33,6 billion roubles ($5.25 billion) in 2017 on boosting Russia's export.
Moscow city authorities will spend 300 million roubles on erecting a monument to the victims of political repressions. The monument should be unveiled next year.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
Japanese Foreign Affairs minister Fumio Kishida says in an interview with the daily that he hopes for progress in signing a peace treaty between Russia and Japan during the visit of President Vladimir Putin to Tokyo in mid-December.
The government plans to borrow 37.5 billion roubles from the Sovereign Wealth Fund to spend on upgrading trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur railway mainlines in 2017, the daily says. ($1 = 64.0580 roubles) (Reporting By Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Andrey Ostroukh)
