* The government will raise wages in the budget-dependent sector by 15% from May 1, the Russian health minister said
* An air strike against Iran will cause a huge wave of extremism in the Arab world, former prime minister and head of the Russian Chamber of Industry and Commerce Yevgeny Primakov said
* Iran is prepared to cooperate to the fullest extent with the International Atomic Energy Agency, if its nuclear file stays with the agency, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said
* President of Russia Vladimir Putin congratulated the Khrunichev state research and production space center with the 90th anniversary of its establishment
* Four suspected militants were arrested in Chechnya, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, on suspicion of involvement in bomb attacks on federal interior troops
* The EU energy commissioner said the European Union and Russia should have constructive relations in the gas sphere
