POLITICS
Estonian farmers betrayed the father of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the Nazis during World War II - and this is what is fueling tensions between Moscow and Tallinn 60 years on, according to new U.S. cables leaked by Wikileaks.
(Moscow Times)
Yabloko co-founder Grigory Yavlinsky would become foreign minister, Moscow's hawkish NATO representative Dmitry Rogozin would become defense minister, and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny would become prosecutor general if the youth wing of the Just Russia party gets its way.
(Moscow Times)
Russia plans to transform the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
(Kommersant, Vedomosti)
Danish Queen Margrethe II is arriving on an official visit in Russia on Tuesday. She gave an interview to Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the All-Russia People's Front coordinator Nikolai Fyodorov have disclosed some possible details of the United Russia party's economic program, which stipulates an increase in state expenses.
(Kommersant)
The Agriculture Ministry wants to allocate over 2 trillion rubles ($67.8bn) by 2020 to support the agroindustrial sector.
(Vedomosti)
The Russian Central Bank is concerned over capital outflow from the country. The thirty largest banks took $20 billion abroad in the first half.
(Moskovskiye Novosti)
OIL & GAS
Ukraine has drafted documents to be filed to international arbitration courts if the gas dispute with Russia is not settled peacefully. Ukraine overpays up to $6 billion annually due to the terms its current gas contract with Russia, President Viktor Yanukovych said.
(Kommersant)
Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has sought to allay fears that the increasingly tense discourse on gas trade between Moscow and Kiev will lead to yet another breakdown in supplies across Europe.
(Moscow Times)
SOCIETY
The Prosecutor General's Office has launched a probe into the deficit of aviation fuel in Moscow airports.
(Kommersant, Vedomosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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