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RUSSIA

* Attempts to exclude Russia from global energy decision making are counterproductive, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday in a landmark address to the lower house of parliament

* The Chechen president said Monday that he suspects his father, the republic's former leader, was murdered by the former military commander killed last week in Dubai

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday declared his income for 2008 stating that he earned 4.14 million rubles ($123,900)

* The Chechen president said on Monday that a man arrested as a main suspect in the killing of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev works for him as a groom

* Russia's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer arrived on Monday in the Chinese port of Zhanjiang on an official visit that followed a three-month tour of duty in the Gulf of Aden

* Large-scale military exercises involving naval infantry and live artillery support have been launched in Russia's Far East, the Pacific Fleet press service said

* Five Russian tennis players continued to dominate the weekly top ten of the Women Tennis Association (WTA) ranking list, which was published Monday

WORLD

* Over 100 people have been killed after a powerful quake hit the mountainous region of Abruzzo in central Italy, the Apcom news agency said

* About 3,000 young people have gathered on a central square in Moldova's capital Chisinau to protest against the newly elected government, police said

* Kazakhstan has offered the UN nuclear watchdog its territory to set up a nuclear fuel bank, the president said on Monday at a joint press conference with Iran's leader

* Russia and Afghanistan agreed on Monday to step up joint efforts to tackle drug trafficking, the Russian Interior Ministry said

* Georgia's president, whose popularity has plummeted since last summer's costly war with Russia and his government's democratic failings, is unable to leave his house due to continual street protests, a Russian daily said

* The Palestinian president said at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday that he believes that Middle East issues should be coordinated with Russia

* Russia's envoy to NATO responded on Monday to criticism over the use of the country's territory for the transit of supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, saying the deliveries were purely non-military

* An explosion killed six people and injured 30 on Monday in Guwahati, the largest city in the northeast Indian state of Assam, a police official said

* Twenty-four people were killed on Monday as a Fokker 27 military aircraft crashed in Indonesia's province of West Java, regional media reported, citing airport officials

* Three Russians and two Ukrainians are among the crew of the German container vessel Hansa Stavanger captured by Somali pirates, the Sovfracht Maritime Bulletin reported

* The candidate of Macedonia's ruling conservative party won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential polls, election officials said

* The UN Security Council has failed to adopt a resolution condemning North Korea's launch of what it said was a rocket carrying a satellite due to calls for caution by Russia and China

* The Moldovan Communist Party of President Vladimir Voronin won the country's parliamentary poll and is expected to have the 61 seats necessary to elect a new president, an election official said

BUSINESS

* Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor, which holds 29.9% of shares of Russian mobile operator VimpelCom, said on Monday it had been officially served with a claim to pay $1.7 billion to VimpelCom