16.10 Russian Press at a Glance, Wednesday, October 16, 2013
POLITICS
Russia and Ukraine continue to study mutual trade options for the future. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov held a regular meeting of the bilateral interstate commissions economic cooperation committee.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Russian Internet company Yandex, owner of Russias largest search engine, has bought the largest website about movies in Russias Internet segment - Kinopoisk.ru. The database will be useful for the search engine when it launches its own online movie theater.
(Vedomosti)
Production started atone ofthe world's biggest polypropylene factories near Tobolsk inwest Siberias Tyumen Region, anevent that may transform Russia froman importer toexporter ofthis widely used material. Tobolsk-Polymer, asubsidiary ofRussian petrochemical company Sibur, will annually produce 500,000 tons ofthe plastic, which is used ineverything frompackaging tocar parts, andwill employ 460 workers.
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, The Moscow Times)
Russian enterprises face stricter environmental regulations, with introduction of a rule that they will have to purify wastewater to levels not harmful to fish. Businesses will ask Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for protection from the regulation.
(Vedomosti)
Rosneft, theworld's top listed oil company byoutput, has taken full control ofan east Siberian crude producer ina deal tounderpin ambitious plans toexpand exports toChina. Consolidating theTas-Yuryakh operation will secure extra supplies, after thestate-controlled company agreed earlier this year todouble oil flows toBeijing fromthe current 300,000 barrels per day ina deal valued at$270 billion.
(The Moscow Times)
Russian retailers costs may rise 10-15 percent due to a duty to be imposed on heavy trucks for each kilometer they travel along roads from November 2014. The Magnit grocery chain is expected to be the most affected by the duty.
(Vedomosti)
Uzbekistan's tax authorities have launched aninvestigation intoVimpelCom's mobile unit, Unitel, thetelecoms group said Tuesday, amove described byanalysts as highlighting therisks ofdoingbusinessin theCentral Asian state. Theinvestigation ofUnitel began just over ayear after aTashkent court ordered theconfiscation ofall assets owned bythe Uzbek subsidiary oftop Russian mobile operator MTS ina criminal case against its local staff.
(The Moscow Times)
RUSSIA
The appeal hearing for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, convicted earlier this year of embezzlement, began Wednesday.
(Moskovskiye Komsomolets)
A Dutch diplomat was attacked and beaten up by unknown assailants in Moscow, just a week after an incident involving a Russian diplomat who claimed he had been assaulted by Dutch police in the Netherlands.
(Moskovskiye Komsomolets)
Payments on compulsory third-party car insurance in Russia will be raised, but insurance premiums will also be raised.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
The problem of illegal migration in Russia has been discussed at all levels. Law enforcers have not ruled out new criminal cases against employers of illegal migrants.
(Kommersant)
Russian lawmakers are to lift a ban on permanent residence registration in countryside houses and dachas. The relevant amendments have been adopted in a first reading.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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