PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Aug 29
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
- Moscow city authorities spent 91 billion roubles ($1.55 billion), or 11 percent of the city's budget, on municipal improvements and landscape renovation of the capital in the first six months of the year. The sum is worth almost 70 percent of similar spending of all the regions across the country, the daily writes.
- A businessman from Russia's northwestern city of Arkhangelsk, Vladimir Gladkikh, has launched a programme which will enable Internet users to pay for goods and servicers with bonuses accumulated from "likes" for posts in social networks.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Russia's Finance Ministry will allow cryptocurrency trade only on the Moscow Exchange under the supervision of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia, according to Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev.
RBC
www.rbc.ru
- In the past two years Russia has prevented imports of more than 16,500 tonnes of vegetables and fruit and 600 tonnes of meat from the European countries that had imposed anti-Russian sanctions, the daily writes, adding that Russian officials have no doubt that all the illegal products had arrived via Belarus.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- Next year Russia plans to offer foreign importers its new anti-aircraft missile system called Vityaz which will be cheaper than the S-400 Triumph and is able to replace Russia's Buk surface-to-air missile systems on the market, the daily reports, citing experts.
- Russia's state space agency Roscosmos intends to spend more than 17 million roubles ($290,365) on finding to boost exports of Russia's space industry and technologies abroad.
ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA
www.rg.ru
- Last year investigators filed 218 criminal cases and another 229 this year, based on information received from Russian mass media outlets, said Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, adding that he regularly watches television news programmes and orders "to take measures" if he sees "outrageous cases".
PRAVDA
www.gazeta-pravda.ru
- Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov has called on his supporters to take part in the Sept. 10 elections of governors and members of regional legislative bodies, saying that low turnover will play right into the hands of the current regime.
- The Communist Party daily publishes an open letter of its readers in support of restoring the monument to the founder of Soviet security police Felix Dzerzhinsky in the centre of the capital which was removed in the early 1990s.
($1 = 58.5470 roubles) (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov)
