21.10 Russian Press at a Glance, Monday, October 21, 2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
POLITICS
Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow Sunday for an official visit, during which he is to meet President Vladimir Putin and sign a series of agreements on trade, nuclear energy and defense equipment.
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Kommersant published an interview with head of Russias Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky on the current situation with migrants in Russia and the recent flare-up of inter-ethnic tensions in Moscow.
(Kommersant)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
The Russian Finance Ministry is set to tighten controls over spending at the Skolkovo high-tech hub.
(Vedomosti)
Russian Railways has sought out its first outside investors to modernize the infrastructure of its 353 stations across the country, in an effort to keep passengers on its tracks and fend off rising competition from air carriers.
(The Moscow Times)
WORLD
Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko would have to return to Ukraine to complete her prison sentence after receiving any medical treatment abroad, under a draft law unveiled Friday.
(The Moscow Times)
A break-in at the apartment of a Russian Embassy employee in the Netherlands, which appeared to be the latest incident in a series of diplomatic spats between the two countries, was a normal burglary committed by a repeat offender, the Dutch foreign minister said.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
CRIME
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is to be transferred to a new penitentiary for her "personal safety," prison authorities said Friday, after Tolokonnikova announced that she was resuming a hunger strike over poor conditions at the facility where she had been jailed.
(The Moscow Times)
SOCIETY
In the latest step by authorities to fight unlawful immigration following an anti-migrant riot earlier this month, the city's police chief said that Moscow police will raid apartments reportedly occupied by illegal migrants every Friday until the end of the year.
(The Moscow Times, Kommersant)
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) wants to have full access to the personal data of Internet users in Russia.
(Kommersant)
Large-scale arrests of migrants following recent clashes between the police and an angry mob of nationalists showed no sign of nearing an end in Russia at the weekend as police announced the detention of nearly 700 migrants in the Moscow Region.
(Kommersant)
SPORTS
Russian boxer Ruslan Provodnikov took the WBO light welterweight belt from defending champion Mike Alvarado on Sunday, when the referee stopped the bout in the tenth round.
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Top seed Richard Gasquet put himself in the running for a place at the season-ending ATP Tour Finals on Sunday with a hard-fought victory in the Kremlin Cup final over a qualifier from Kazakhstan.
(Kommersant)
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