PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Sept 12
MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The following are some of the stories in Russia's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
- Russia's Economy Ministry has issued guidelines for the country's development by 2020, which envisage the reduction of payments to pensioners by 0.7 percent next year and by a further 0.6 percent by 2019-2020, the daily reports.
- The government has no plans to compensate the loss in the purchasing power of state pensions for those pensioners who continue working after retirement, the daily writes, referring to about 10 million such people, according to official statistics.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Russia ranks 35th in the global rating of state spending on science in terms of its share in the gross domestic product, experts from the Higher School of Economy said, concluding that the current level of state investment cannot pave the way for Russia's leading position in science.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
- President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to earmark funds to make the current minimum wage the size of the minimum living standard of 10,701 roubles ($187.07) by 2019.
- Putin says that Russia's economy is getting out of the crisis and starting to grow, the daily writes.
ROSSISKAYA GAZETA
www.rg.ru
- Russia is starting to upgrade its Soviet-era tank T-80 to be able to protect its areas in the Arctic. The modernized tank could become not only the best armoured vehicle in the Arctic, but also the best one in the world, the daily writes. ($1 = 57.2038 roubles) (Reporting by Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Dmitry Solovyov)
