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Suspect in murder of Russia's top female entrepreneur held
http://en.rian.ru/crime/20111117/168774768.html
12:03 17/11/2011
MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - The suspected killer of Russia’s chief female entrepreneur has been detained, police said on Thursday.
Tatyana Milyutina, president of the Russian Association of Women Entrepreneurs, was found dead at her home in Moscow in July. Police believe she was killed with a blunt instrument.
The 36-year-old man, whose name was not given, confessed to the murder, which he said was ordered by the association’s then vice-president, Lyudmila Kachalova.
Kachalova is now the body’s president.
PRESS DIGEST - Russia - Nov 17
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7:22am GMT
MOSCOW, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
VEDOMOSTI
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- Russia's Tula region is advertising a new discount programme for pensioners that uses images similar to those in ruling United Russia party's campaign, the paper says.
- Russian energy giant Gazprom and its subsidiaries had a record investment programme of 1.6 trillion roubles ($52,1 billion) this year, the paper says.
KOMMERSANT
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- Russia's Central Election Commission has urged ultra-nationalist LDPR party to refrain from nationalist and xenophobic campaigning, the paper writes.
- Russian users of Facebook will be able to legally listen to music using Yandex music application, the paper writes.
- Mobile phone sales in Russia doubled to reach 10.5 million roubles ($340,000) from January to September this year compared to the same period of last year, the daily reports. ($1 = 30.691 Russian Roubles) (Writing by Ludmila Danilova)
Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, November 17, 2011
http://en.rian.ru/papers/20111117/168771859.html
09:00 17/11/2011
POLITICS
Leaders of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party discussed the idea to create the Eurasian Union. The Union would have a single language, currency, Central Bank and justice system
(Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Izvestia, Vedomosti)
The standing Russia-EU partnership council will convene in Moscow on Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton attending. The participants will discuss a list of measures needed to introduce visa-free regime between Russia and the European Union
(Kommersant)
The Senate’s consideration of the White House’s nominee for ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul was delayed
(The Moscow Times, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
At a meeting in Morocco the Arab League confirmed its decision to suspend Syria’s membership. It also called on its members to impose economic sanctions against Bashar al-Assad’s regime and recall ambassadors from Damascus
(Nezavisimaya Gazeta)
The Central Election Commission advised Russia’s nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) to “abstain” from “xenophobic and nationalist” statements during the election campaign. The party said it had no plans to remove nationalist rhetoric from its campaign agenda
(Kommersant)
ECONOMY
German business executives sought to improve their chances at Russian tenders and welcomed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's intention to run for president again as they met with him on Wednesday. This was the first of the annual meetings to take place since Germany ceded the rank of Russia's biggest trade partner to China last year.
(The Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Moskovskie Novosti)
METALS & MINING
One of Russia’s largest coal producers, the Kemerovo-based Raspadskaya, announced a buyback of 78.1 million shares, or 10 percent of its stock, at 150 rubles ($4.86) apiece, or about $380 million total
(The Moscow Times, Kommersant, Izvestia, Vedomosti)
OIL & GAS
Russia and Ukraine have yet to finalize a new agreement on the price Ukraine pays for gas, spokesmen for the Russian government and export monopoly Gazprom said after a report from Kiev that a deal had been reached.
(The Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya Gazeta)
Russia, on the brink of joining the World Trade Organization, is considering challenging EU energy rules that would limit gas export monopoly Gazprom's control over its European pipeline assets, a government source said
(The Moscow Times, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
VEHICLES & ENGINEERING
Sberbank, the largest lender of Russian carmaker GAZ Group, opposed the company’s request to receive a 38-billion-ruble loan from another major Russian bank, VTB
(Kommersant)
TELECOMS & IT
Russian Yandex and Zvooq portals have launched applications for Russian Facebook users, allowing them to legally listen to music online
(Kommersant, Vedomosti)
Russia has become Europe's biggest market by number of Internet users, overtaking the region's leading economies Germany and France - an encouraging milestone for the biggest market players, but largely seen as natural due to the size of the country's population.
(The Moscow Times, Vedomosti)
SOCIETY
A pro-Russian Chechen poet was gunned down, possibly by the same gunman who shot dead Colonel Yury Budanov, a veteran of the Chechen campaign and convicted war criminal
(The Moscow Times, Kommersant, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Moskovskie Novosti, Izvestia)
In a throwback to Soviet times, St. Petersburg legislators have tentatively approved a bill that would impose fines on gays or lesbians who openly profess their sexual orientation.
(The Moscow Times, Nezavisimaya Gazeta)
Andrei Bykov will be the first suspect to go on trial in connection with the mass murder of 12 people, including eight adults and four children, in the village of Kushchevskaya in the southern Krasnodar region.
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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