PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - May 25
MOSCOW, May 25 (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 Russian Grain Union has appealed to state monopoly Russian Railways, asking it to continue transportation of Russian grain to the Baltic Sea ports, including those located in Latvia, the newspaper said. Russia can channel through the Baltic ports 7 percent of its total grain exports. Only one Russia port on the Baltic Sea in Kaliningrad has a grain terminal, which is insufficient. The region is ready to attract investors to build a new grain terminal, the business daily said, citing the region's acting deputy governor, Alexandr Shenderyuk-Zhidkov, as saying.
- Russia's state-managed industrial conglomarate Rostec and state-run Rostelecom are creating a domestic analogue of Skype for public authorities and industry, the newspaper said.
- Russia's Finance Ministry experts advise against extending further an oil output cut deal involving OPEC and non-OPEC nations, as this could send crude prices falling to $30 per barrel, the daily reports, citing a ministry document which it saw.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Ukraine may block railway links to Russia from July, the daily reports, citing its source. A refusal by state monopoly Russian Railways to stop transporting passengers to Russia from Ukraine's partly rebel-held Donetsk Region may be used by Kiev as a pretext for the move.
- Russians spent $870 million on buying real estate abroad in 2016, two times more compared to 2015, Russian central bank data show.
- Russia's contemporary art market is still in its infancy, the daily reports, citing the Russian director of auction house Sotheby's, Irina Stepanova, as saying.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- The share of non-residents holding Russian government debt exceeded 30 percent in the first quarter of this year, the daily reports, citing central bank data.
($1 = 56.2743 rub) (reporting by Margarita Popova; editing by Dmirty Solovyov)
