PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Aug 8
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
- According to a survey of teachers of Russian secondary schools conducted by the Higher School of Economics and Levada Center in the 2016/2017 academic year, only 22 percent of teachers were satisfied with their work. Bureaucratic burden on teachers has increased, while salaries remain at a low level, the daily reports.
- Andrei Medvedev, said by opposition leader Alexey Navalny to be Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev´s cousin, has launched an apple farming project in Kuban in southern Russia.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Fuel prices on Russia's market have grown due to repair works at several refineries and "correction" of world oil prices. Analysts predict continued growth in fuel prices due to repairs at other refineries and prices for petroleum products on the world market, the daily writes.
- Russia's authorities are discussing the need to subsidize air travel for domestic tourist operators due to a drop in demand for domestic tourism by 20 percent, the newspaper reports.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- Russia's Defence Ministry will hold an air festival on Aug. 12 when the country celebrates the Day of Russian Aerospace Forces on Aug. 12, and the second time from Aug. 22 to Aug. 27 at the "Army-2017" exhibition. A total of 105 military aircraft will take part in this event, the daily reports.
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA
www.rg.ru
- The outflow of population from Russia's Far East has amounted to 2 million people in the past 20 years, or almost 20 percent of the population of the federal district, said Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's decision-making Security Council. He called the underdevelopment of the social, housing, communal and transport infrastructure as well as low incomes and high dependence on food supplies as the main causes for this situation. At the same time, 400,000 foreign citizens have been registered in Russia's Far East the beginning of 2017.
($1 = 60.0605 roubles) (Reporting by Margarita Popova; Editing bby Dmitry Solovyov)
