* Parliamentary speakers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will gather for a debut meeting in Moscow Tuesday to address regional cooperation and international issues.
* Russia's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a government decision to construct a pipeline from East Siberia to the Pacific Ocean to supply oil to Asia-Pacific region countries was legal.
* Russia will establish a government venture capital corporation with a charter capital of 15 billion rubles (about $555 million), a deputy economy minister said.
* Russia's government must eliminate factors contributing to high inflation in 2007, President Vladimir Putin said in his annual budget address posted on the Kremlin Web site.
* The first Mi-28N Night Hunter helicopter gunship was given to Russia's Defense Ministry after successfully completing factory tests, the chopper's manufacturer said.
* The mayor of the Volga River city of Volgograd has been detained as part of an investigation into embezzlement, a local deputy prosecutor said.
* A Progress M-57 space freighter will be launched to the International Space Station on the back of a Soyuz-U rocket on June 24, 2006.
* Vladimir Putin and George Bush said the international community should continue its efforts to resolve the crisis around Iran's controversial nuclear programs during a telephone conversation, the Kremlin press service said.
* Open Russia, an NGO founded by jailed ex-Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has filed a fresh appeal against a ruling by Moscow City Court to freeze its accounts.
* Georgia said that the route being used by Russia to rotate its peacekeepers in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia is illegitimate and could exacerbate an already tense situation.
