25.10 Russian Press at a Glance, Friday, October 25, 2013
POLITICS
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former intelligence analyst holed up in Russia, says in an interview with the Washington Post he has evidence of American spying against Russia.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Top officials from the Russian presidential administration called on city mayors to cooperate with independent experts, NGOs and associations of city residents.
(Kommersant)
Moscow has angrily denied that Yury Zaitsev, head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture, tried to recruit young Americans to spy for Russian intelligence agencies, calling the allegations a horror story reminiscent of the Cold War.
(The Moscow Times)
The Russian media look back at the arrest of former Yukos oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky ten years ago.
(Moskovsky Komsomolets, Novaya Gazeta)
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Turkey is interested injoining theCustoms Union ofRussia, Belarus andKazakhstan, andIndia also wants closer ties with theorganization, President Vladimir Putin said atthe Eurasian Economic Community summit inMinsk.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta, The Moscow Times)
The State Duma is set to start discussing the 2014 budget. The budget will cut nearly all spending except the social sphere by 5 percent, but will still have a higher deficit than that expected a year ago.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
The Russian Sports Ministry will get the exclusive right to manage funds allocated for construction of stadiums for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The authorities of regions where soccer matches will be held may lose their right to manage some 100 billion rubles ($3.2 billion) the federal budget is about to allocate for the purpose.
(Izvestia, Kommersant, Moskovsky Komsomolets)
Russias Finance Ministry wants to invite more highly skilled workers to the country to make up for a deficit. Meanwhile, unskilled laborers like janitors from Central Asia are leaving the Russian capital in the face of a crackdown by the authorities on illegal migrants.
(Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda)
Consumer prices for eggs went up in October. Russian retailers blame producers for raising prices, while producers say they have to pass on higher prices for grain and say they already operate on the margins of profitability.
(Vedomosti)
RUSSIA
Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov has developed a draft of a migration amnesty. Migrants will have to conclude a labor contract and register with the tax service to become legalized.
(Kommersant)
SOCIETY
A member of a crime gang from the 1990s, guilty of over 20 contract murders, will serve 19 years in prison instead of a life sentence. Hitman Andrei Vershinin, a member of the notorious Alexander Solonik gang, has struck a plea bargain with investigators.
(Kommersant)
Injust thelatest ofnumerous indignities carried out against his image inthe past two decades, astatue ofVladimir Lenin was beheaded inthe southern district ofOrenburg this week.
(The Moscow Times)
Investigators replaced piracy charges for Greenpeace activists detained last month aboard Greenpeaces icebreaker Arctic Sea with hooliganism.
(Kommersant)
SPORT
Footballs governing body FIFA is looking into allegations of racist chanting at a match between Manchester City and Russias CSKA in Moscow earlier this week. Black players are threatening a possible boycott of the World Cup in 2018, to be held in Russia.
(Izvestia)
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