POLITICS

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Governor of the Krasnodar Region Alexander Tkachyov discussing the consequences of the devastating floods that recently hit the region

(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

A standoff between Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his Ingush counterpart, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, heated up Monday when Chechnya declared the creation of a "bilateral commission" to delineate the internal border with Ingushetia.

(The Moscow Times)

Oleg Mitvol, Russia’s former deputy head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, announce his plans to run for mayor of Khimki, a city in the Moscow Region

(Kommersant)

The only United Russia official to publicly call for Pussy Riot's release said he won't give up his post or party membership, days after his superior called for his ouster.

(The Moscow Times)

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

Russia’s state-run companies pledge to spend 4.2 trillion rubles on innovations up to 2020

(Vedomosti)

OIL & GAS

Sailors aboard the Arctic vessel Anna Akhmatova used water cannons to forcibly remove the Greenpeace activists who had chained themselves to the ship in protest against its supply of oil rig workers to the Arctic Prirazlomnaya drilling platform

(Kommersant)

A fire that broke out at Venezuela’s Amuay oil refinery, one of the world’s largest, has spread on the third fuel tanker

(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

WORLD

Seventeen civilians were beheaded by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Sunday for attending a party in defiance of the Islamist group

(Kommersant)

International organizations voice concern over the human rights protection situation in Uzbekistan

(Nezavisimaya Gazeta)

More than 300 people were killed in Syria’s Daraya. Most of the bodies were found in the basements of residential buildings.

(Nezavisimaya Gazeta)

SOCIETY

Vaccines against Anthrax have been delivered to Russia’s Altai Territory, where a total of 10 peple are believed to have contracted the disease

(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

CRIME

Akhmed Yevloyev, one of the men suspected of the deadly bomb attack on the Moscow Domodedovo airport last year, initially planned to go to Paris instead of the Russian capital

(Kommersant)

CULTURE

U.S. pop star Lady Gaga will perform her first ever concert in Russia in December

(Kommersant)

SPORTS

With multinational hotel companies gearing up for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and 2018 FIFA World Cup, as well as trying to cash in on rising domestic business and leisure travel, they face the Olympian task of beating both the clock and the competition to deliver new properties

(The Moscow Times)

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