PRESS DIGEST - RUSSIA - Mar 15
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
- Sales of package tours to Russian resorts will not rise and may even decline in 2018 as Russians increasingly prefer to spend their holidays abroad, particularly at Turkish resorts, the business daily reports.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
- Fraudsters who steal money from bank cards in Russia mainly target middle-class citizens aged 25-40. Such owners of bank cards prefer to share what happened to them on social media instead of going to the police, the newspaper writes.
MK
www.mk.ru http://www.izvestia.ru
- Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet dissident and an expert in radiobiology who now lives in Britain, said in an interview with the newspaper that Russian tycoons in exile could have been behind the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain. ($1 = 57.0509 roubles) (Reporting by Margarita Popova Editing by Andrey Ostroukh)
