PRESS DIGEST - Russia - May 7

MOSCOW May 7 (Reuters) - The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Friday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

KOMMERSANT

kommersant.ru

- State holding Russian Technologies is planning to set up a joint venture with Italian company Berreta to produce about 150 000 rifles a year in Russia, the daily reports.

- Two more tax officials will join the team under Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who previously headed the tax collecting agency before being appointed to lead the military.

VEDOMOSTI

www.vedomosti.ru

- Russia is planning to toughen its control over oil companies through monitoring oil production and the traffic of oil products.

- Russia has banned the imports of children's food produced by Nestle in Finland, the daily says, citing the chief of the country's consumer goods watchdog, Gennady Onischenko.

- Russia's military will show off six new types of equipment during the World War Two Victory parade on May 9 in Moscow.

ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA

www.rg.ru

- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev marks two years, or half of his term, in office on Friday. The daily publishes experts' commentaries on the subject.

IZVESTIA

www.izvestia.ru

- Medvedev says in a two-page interview that he will pursue a state policy excluding any attempts to rehabilitate Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

- Medvedev orders that the servicemen responsible for rescuing the Russian hijacked oil tanker off the Somali coast are awarded.