Russian Press at a Glance, Wednesday, June 22, 2011

POLITICS

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dismissed speculation of a rift with President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, saying he and Medvedev share a "joint program" for Russia's development.
(Moscow Times, Kommersant)

Belarusian authorities threatened the European Union with reciprocal measures after Brussels imposed new sanctions against Minsk. The EU may impose further sanctions against the former Soviet state’s largest exporters unless President Alexander Lukashenko stops persecuting the opposition.
(Kommersant)

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presided over the signing of several aviation deals in Paris on Tuesday and used a meeting with French investors to apologize to the contractor building the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway through the Khimki Forest.
(Moscow Times, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

Heads of the biggest international equity funds and foreign companies investing locally greeted the details of President Dmitry Medvedev's new sovereign investment fund with enthusiasm, seeing it as a vehicle to reduce risks and attract investors who do not have a local presence.
(Moscow Times)

Egypt, the world's biggest wheat buyer, said it will exclude Russian grain from its tenders for now, a sign that the exporter is failing to win back some customers after imposing a 10-month ban on shipments.
(Moscow Times)

SOCIETY

A Moscow court on Tuesday cleared Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin in a defamation lawsuit, saying his statements were “evaluative.”
(Kommersant, Moscow Times)

The pilots of the RusAir Tu-134 jet that crashed in the northwestern Russian republic of Karelia late on Monday took an unjustified risk when deciding to land in questionable weather conditions.
(Kommersant)

Moscow City Court judges who considered an appeal from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev created a precedent: they commented on the Yukos case.
(Vedomosti)

President Dmitry Medvedev met with top Interior Ministry officials to discuss police reform.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

Moscow hosted an all-Russian environmental forum dedicated to waste processing and disposal.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

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