* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will announce his decision on the future of the nation's parliament and government within the timeframe as set under the Constitution, the presidential press service said
* All but one member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in Ukraine signed their resignation from parliament Monday in protest against a new majority coalition
* Two checkpoints of Russian peacekeepers in the Kodori Gorge in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia have been put on high alert over fears of escalating tensions
* Russia is ready to help peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but has no plans to deploy military hardware in Georgia, the Defense Ministry said
* The Moscow City Court has finished an investigation into murder charges against the former security chief at embattled oil company Yukos, a lawyer said
* Russia's accrued inflation in the first six months and 17 days of 2006 totaled 6.6%, and July's inflation will amount to 0.5%-0.6%, the economic development minister said
* Severstal Auto [RTS: SVAV] said it had reached an agreement with Italy's Fiat Group to build the Fiat Ducato mini-van in Russia
* A regional HIV vaccine development center will cost Russia's federal budget some $40 million, the country's chief doctor said
* Russia will evacuate 50 more Russian and CIS citizens from the Israeli-Lebanese conflict zone on July 25, a senior official with the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday
* A deputy Russian foreign minister arrived in Israel Monday to hold talks as part of a Middle East tour in an effort to end the conflicts in Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority
