POLITICS
A Russia-Georgia war of words has turned into a war of bills after a Moscow landlord filed a lawsuit to evict a group of Tbilisi diplomats amid feeble attempts by the Foreign Ministry to intervene. The ministry took a new stab at Georgia, accusing it of preparing an invasion into South Ossetia.
(Moscow Times)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Russia's largest state lender Sberbank has postponed investor meetings in the Middle East and Asia as jittery markets cast the privatization of a 7.6 percent stake in doubt, three banking sources said.
(Moscow Times)
Against the backdrop of gas price reduction talks with Moscow, Kiev keeps indicating to Russia it is going to gradually stop buying its gas.
(Kommersant)
The Central Bank said Russian banks have been suing individuals over debts more often in 2011.
(Kommersant)
The government has shown which monopoly is more important: energy giant Gazprom's prices may grow 15% while other monopolies' by 5-6% in 2012.
(Vedomosti)
SOCIETY
An American woman put hot sauce in her adopted 7-year-old son's mouth not to punish the Russian boy for lying, but to come up with sensational footage to get on a television show, a prosecutor said.
(Moscow Times)
The Moscow City Court denied bail to a Dagestani-born mixed martial arts champion charged with killing a 19-year-old police college dropout with a single blow. According to secret services, nationalists planned to organize riots on Sunday if the champion was released on bail.
(Kommersant, Moscow Times, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Chechen media that corruption is one of the most urgent problems for the North Caucasus. Experts say Russian security agency officers are to blame.
(Kommersant)
The Transportation and Finance ministries published draft documents on new regulations for compulsory motor vehicle inspections.
(Kommersant)
IT
Volvo presented a new electric car in Moscow.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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