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PRESS DIGEST - Russia - Oct 28

Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:08am EDT

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MOSCOW, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The following are some of the leading stories in Russia's newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

KOMMERSANT

www.kommersant.ru

- Russian Communications ministry plans to introduce mobile number portability, which will cost Russia's no. 1 mobile phone operator MTS (MBT.N) $130 million, the paper writes.

- Private plane crashed in Minsk on Monday, killing 5 Russians, including a businessman who flew to Belarus to gamble, the daily says. - Russians deposited 214 billion roubles ($7.40 billion) in banks in the third quarter of 2009, which is 28 percent less than in the second quarter, the paper reports.

- Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposes that the underground part of Bolshoi theatre be widened in order to double the capacity, the daily writes.

VEDOMOSTI

www.vedomosti.ru

- Russian government will allocate 6 billion roubles ($207.3 million) from 2009 budget to support dismissed workers of the troubled car maker Avtovaz (AVAZ.MM), the paper writes.

GAZETA

www.gzt.ru

- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met the head of central elections commitee on Tuesday, the paper reports.

- Russia's Anti-monopoly service has surcharged oil company Rosneft (ROSN.MM) 5.28 billion roubles for setting high fuel prices, the paper writes.

- The number of troubled banks in Russia has dropped from 50 in 2008 to 30 in 2009, the daily says citing central bank officials.

KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA

www.kp.ru

- Moscow leads the rating of Russia's cities most unfriendly to start-up businesses, the popular daily says citing World Bank reports.



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