PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - March 1
MOSCOW, March 1 (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
- Creditors of what was once Russia's biggest private airline, Transaero, are considering ways to set up a new company using the old brand name. Transaero was declared bankrupt in 2015.
- Russia's anti-monopoly watchdog, FAS, has filed a case against the Ministry of Health, accusing it of failing to devise a proper system for licensing medical service providers.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Russia will pass a bill to make firms report on greenhouse gas emissions, a move that could lay the ground for a carbon regulation system, the daily says.
- Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin has promised to start Russia's ratification process for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in the near future.
RBC
www.rbc.ru
- The government is considering forcing state-controlled companies to divert 50 percent of their dividends to the state budget, Anton Siluanov, the finance minister, says in an interview with the daily.
- China became the biggest importer of Russian food products, overtaking Turkey, Egypt, Korea and Kazakhstan, the daily says.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- Russian scientists have found three of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant types of bacteria in 15 towns, including in Moscow and St.Petersburg, the daily says.
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA
- Disgruntled Russian truck drivers and farmers are planning to hold a series of protests at the end of March and will demand that the cabinet resign and express no confidence in the president, the daily says. Truck drivers are unhappy about what they say are high road taxes and petrol prices. Farmers are protesting against what they say is the illegal seizure of their land in southern Russia, the daily adds.
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA
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- Russia may launch trips around the Moon for tourists by 2021-2022, Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russia's space rocket maker Energia, is quoted as saying.
- Ukraine's breakaway region of Lugansk is making the Russian rouble its official currency from March 1, the daily says. (Reporting By Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
