PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Sept 11
The following are some of the stories in Russia's newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Sunday's elections held in Russia's regions showed a record low level of voter turnout which did not prevent the victory of candidates from the ruling United Russia party, the daily writes.
- Russia's government will regulate purchases of foreign passenger planes from January 2018, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. State carriers will have to coordinate with the transport ministry their plans for purchases of foreign planes, the daily reports.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- The victory of candidates from the ruling United Russia party in Sunday's election of regional leaders and lawmakers was inevitable due to a lack of strong opposition candidates, the daily writes.
- Some Turkish agribusiness companies, selected by Russia's food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor, will be allowed to resume their export of tomatoes to Russia in October, the daily reports.
- Russia's Constitutional Court has turned down complaints by Levada Centre opinion poll foundation against including it in the list of "foreign agents". The Justice Ministry has said that Levadas's opinion surveys "influence public and political views in society", the daily writes.
KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA
www.kp.ru
- Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russia's youngest ever Winter Olympic Gold medallist in Sochi 2014, has officially announced about her resignation from figure skating at the age of 19 after being treated for anorexia, the daily writes.
- Natalia Poklonskaya, a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, has filed a lawsuit with a court in St.Petersburg on behalf of a distant relative of Russia's last tsar Nicolas II against film maker Alexei Uchitel, in a bid to bar his new film Mathilde from public showing. Poklonskaya believes that showing a relationship of the young tsar with a ballet dancer offends the memory of his family considered martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church. (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Dmitry Solovyov)
