10.07 Russian Press at a Glance, Wednesday, July 10, 2013
POLITICS
Russia's prosecutor general accused 215 NGOs of circumventing a recent law on foreign funding by refusing to register as foreign agents.
(Kommersant)
The British Embassy in Moscow responded on Tuesday to a report saying that the UK had banned entry to 60 Russian officials implicated in the Sergei Magnitsky case.
(The Moscow Times)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that this year's abnormally high temperatures in European Russia could impact harvests. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
In September The World Trade Organization may start hearing the first dispute between Russia and the European Union since Moscow's accession to the WTO, if the two sides fail to settle the issue of Russia's vehicle recycling levy out of court.
(Vedomosti, Kommersant)
OIL & GAS
Russias oil reserves are no longer a state secret, according to a resolution signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and posted on the governments legal information website
(Vedomosti)
WORLD
The UK Home Office has banned 60 Russian officials allegedly involved in the prison death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 from entering the UK.
(Vedomosti)
SOCIETY
Russians believe that the level of corruption in the country has risen over the last two years, despite government efforts to fight it, and that graft has become one of society's worst afflictions, Transparency International's Russia office said.
(The Moscow Times)
CRIME
Up to 10,000 first-time offenders sent to prison for violating financial laws should qualify for amnesty, according to Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.
(Kommersant)
Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, an editor at local newspaper "Novoe Delo," died in his car outside his house in Makhachkala, the regional capital, after it was fired on at about 7:00 a.m. by unknown assailants.
(Kommersant, The Moscow Times)
CULTURE
The Bolshoi Theaters director was dismissed seven months after an acid attack on his artistic director and a series of scandals that tarnished the reputation of Russias most renowned ballet company.
(Kommersant, The Moscow Times)
SPORTS
Wladimir Klitschko's next opponent Alexander Povetkin has fired his manager Vlad Hrunov.
(Kommersant)
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