Vladimir Putin's election triumph in Russia is widely
covered.
According to the headline in the Times, Mr Putin's
landslide victory was thanks to Britain.
It says anger over the UK's response to the nerve
agent attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal,
galvanised voters behind their leader.
The Washington Post takes a similar line. It quotes
a former Kremlin adviser-turned critic as saying
the approach adopted by Theresa May and her
government was a "pre-election present" for Mr
Putin.
The paper predicts that as in-fighting over Russia's
domestic course continues at the top in Moscow,
President Putin could look towards intensifying the
conflict with the West.
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The website of the Russian tabloid Komosmolskaya
Pravda hails what it describes as a well-deserved
victory.
It tells readers it is noteworthy that no Western
media reported that the election had been rigged or
falsified.
It apparently had not noticed, among others, the
Financial Times, which reports on isolated episodes
of violence against election monitors, as well as
ballot stuffing and other violations.
Its headline reads "Sunshine, smiles and headbutts
as Russia makes its choice".
But the paper quotes an elderly voter called Olga in
Moscow who says: "In America they have a fool,
here we have a strong president. Hurrah for Putin!"
Tech regulation
The Daily Telegraph leads on what it claims is the
"End of the Wild West Era For Tech Firms" .
As controversy intensifies over the reported misuse
of data from millions of Facebook users by the
company Cambridge Analytica, the paper quotes a
warning from Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Secretary Matt Hancock.
He says technology firms must accept increasing
regulation and taxation by national governments
"for the good of the people".
In an editorial, the Guardian says data from
Facebook users helped to subvert the openness of
democracy.
It says the standards around the world by which
the internet is controlled need to be open and
subject to the workings of independent judiciaries.
The paper concludes that the task cannot be left to
the companies themselves "whose own judgements
are almost wholly opaque and arbitrary".
The Financial Times has spoken to the head of the
Cambridge Analytica . Alexander Nix denies that he
deliberately misled a parliamentary committee last
month when he said his firm did not use Facebook
data.
He told the paper that he stood by his remarks,
despite a whistleblower saying over the weekend
that he had evidence to the contrary.
Cannot be serious
The Daily Mail devotes the whole of its front page to
what it describes as the first UK study of food
contamination by airborne plastic.
The Mail says food in shops is widely tainted with
potentially dangerous particles that float in the air.
According to the paper, experts have warned that
ingesting the particles can damage lungs, poison
kidneys and interfere with hormones.
Several papers pick up on tonight's Panorama
programme about equal pay.
Under the headline "You Cannot Be Serious!", the
Daily Mail reports Martina Navratilova's assertion
that the BBC pays her fellow Wimbledon
commentator, John McEnroe, 10 times as much as
her.
The Guardian quotes the former women's tennis
champion as saying she was shocked to discover
that the former men's number one was paid
£150,000 for his commentary work, whereas she
got £15,000.
She says the bottom line is that men's voices are
valued more than women's.
A BBC spokesman said the two stars performed
different roles, with McEnroe's of a different scale,
scope and time commitment. Gender, according to
the BBC, is not a factor.
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