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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reassured Ukraine on Monday that it will eventually join NATO, and said no countries should influence its decision. 
The main suspect in the murder of a top Russian banking regulator has started a hunger strike after being placed in an isolation cell, a courtroom source said on Monday.

Russia's prime minister has given an order to clarify the reasons for shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to the Czech Republic, and to ensure uninterrupted supplies. 
Iraq's investment committee is studying projects proposed by U.S. and Russian firms to turn Saddam Hussein's palace near the site of ancient Babylon into a tourist site with a casino, an Iraqi paper said. 
The main suspect in the murder of a top Russian banking regulator has started a hunger strike after being placed in an isolation cell, a courtroom source said on Monday. 
A consignment of Russian fighter jets has been shipped to Sudan from Belarus, in an apparent breach of a UN Security Council resolution banning arms sales to the African state, the Sudan Tribune said. 
Robert Dudley, the head of the Russian-British joint oil venture TNK-BP, has been granted a work permit valid until July 2009, but still needs to get his visa renewed to be able to work in Russia. 
Moscow has been chosen ahead of other Russian cities bidding to host the 2009 Eurovision song context, the prime minister said on Monday. 
The possible deployment of Russian strategic bombers in Cuba may be an effective response to the placement of NATO bases near Russia's borders, a former Air Force commander said on Monday. 
A regular rotation of the Russian aviation group of the UN Mission in Sudan will be held on August 4-9, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Monday. 



