A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
POLITICS
President Dmitry Medvedev ordered police to identify and punish those responsible for violent, racist rioting just outside the Kremlin's walls over the weekend
(Vremya Novostei, Vedomosti, the Moscow Times, Kommersant, Nezavisimaya Gazeta)
United Russia should attract more opposition members, while maintaining its ideological path of “Russian Conservatism”
(The Moscow Times, Kommersant, Vedomosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to create a unified document defining Russia’s energy security
(Kommersnat)
BUSINESS
LUKoil will become one of the core investors of the technology hub in Skolkovo and will locate its research center there beginning in 2014
(The Moscow Times)
Russia's top mobile phone operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is set to borrow from country’s top lender Sberbank 100 billion rubles ($3.3 billion
(Vedomosti)
AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Presenting the prototype for the “yo-mobile” car on Monday, Mikhail Prokhorov, head of Onexim Group, said that the joint venture Yo-Avto (formerly Gorodskoy Avtomobil - City Car) is planning to establish auto assembly plants to produce the cars abroad
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
OIL & GAS
The latest restructuring at state-owned oil giant Rosneft took a high-profile twist Monday, as a sleeper agent in July's infamous spy swap was appointed to a top position in the company
(The Moscow Times)
Igor Putin, a cousin of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left the post of Master-Bank vice-president to head Russian pipeline construction company Surguttruboprovodstroi
(Kommersant)
DEFENSE
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov says he hopes a WikiLeaks report about NATO's contingency plan to defend the Baltic states from potential Russian aggression is false
SOCIETY
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, considers introducing new harsher amendments to anti-tobacco regulations
(Vremya Novostei, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
The Moscow City Court is set to announce on Tuesday its verdict in regard to Alexander Bulbov, a former senior Federal Drug Control official charged with fraud and abuse of office. Bulbov pleaded guilty to charges
(Kommersant)
SPORTS
Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) club SKA tore up a contract with 35-year-old goaltender Yevgeny Nabokov
(Kommersant)
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