MOSCOW, Dec 25 – The following are some of the stories in Russia’s newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
www.vedomosti.ru
– President Vladimir Putin has ordered his cabinet to outline measures aimed at reducing the state’s role in the economy.
– Russian authorities will turn sanctions against Russia to their advantage and work on encouraging businessmen to bring assets back home from abroad, the daily says.
KOMMERSANT
www.kommersant.ru
– Rosneft has asked Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to allow the oil major to gain control, without a competitive tender, of about one thousand square metres of the Siberian Erginsky oil and gas cluster.
– Russia’s communists have chosen Pavel Grudinin, a businessman disappointed in the ruling United Russia party, as their candidate for president in the upcoming elections.
IZVESTIA
www.izvestia.ru
– Russia will develop precision-guided weapons as a key part of its state armaments programme, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying during his meeting with senior military officials on Dec. 22.
NEZAVISIMAY GAZETA
www.ng.ru
– Russian lawmakers have decided that the minimum salary from Jan. 1 will be 9,489 roubles ($163.00), equivalent to 85 percent of the official subsistence rate. Almost 14 percent of Russians live below the poverty line, according to official statistics for 2017.
– The government will focus on reducing the share of Russians living below the poverty line from the current 13-14 percent to 7-8 percent during the next six or seven years, Minister of Labour and Social Protection Maxim Topilin said.
($1 = 58.2131 roubles) (Reporting By Tatiana Ustinova; Editing by Polina Ivanova/Andrew Osborn)
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