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18:04 GMT 30.05.2008

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to Germany on June 5, the Kremlin said

* The Russian Navy commander said the Black Sea Fleet could increase the number of warships at its base in Sevastopol, in Ukraine's Crimea, to 100

* The Sokol aircraft plant, based in Nizhny Novgorod, central Russia, is to launch production of the MiG-29M/M2 Fulcrum fighter plane, the company's general director said

* Russia's amended federal Glonass program will be approved this year, the general designer of the global navigation system said

* The re-elected president of the Russian Academy of Sciences dismissed a member's proposal to amend the charter to strip fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky of his Academy membership and salary

* Russia's sexual minorities plan to hold an unauthorized gay parade in the center of Moscow on June 1, the parade organizer said

WORLD

* A delegation of 15 ambassadors of EU states to Georgia arrived in the country's breakaway region of Abkhazia to discus means of resuming peace talks, the Abkhaz foreign minister said

* Georgia has suspended unmanned reconnaissance flights over Abkhazia, but could resume them in the event of a threat from the breakaway region, the Caucasus state's UN ambassador said

* The Czech government will make its own decision on the U.S. missile defense shield, based on the country's interests, not on how Russia feels about the matter, the Czech president said

* No specific timeframe for resuming six-nation negotiations on North Korea's denuclearization has been fixed yet, the head of Russia's delegation to the talks said

* A total of 174 aftershocks were recorded over the past 24 hours in China's southwest province of Sichuan devastated by a recent earthquake, the country's State Council said

* Japan's government announced it has cancelled plans to use military planes to deliver aid to a quake-hit Chinese province, and will fly the supplies over in private charter planes

* Lebanon's prime minister designate, Fuad Siniora, began consultations with lawmakers to form a national unity government

* Israel Defense Forces have injured eight Palestinians near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa TV said

* Inflation in Ukraine has exceeded 13% since the start of the year and is becoming a huge threat, the president said during the opening session of the National Security and Defense Council

* Fifteen Russian sailors have been arrested in the southwest of Spain on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking, a Spanish Civil Guard official said

* The Ukrainian Security Service said it has arrested a gang involved in stealing and selling radioactive scrap metal and timber from the country's nuclear disaster stricken Chernobyl

* The death toll from a May 23 explosion in an east Ukrainian coal mine has risen to six, with five still missing, the country's emergencies ministry said

* About 35,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in Nicaragua since the tropical storm Alma hit the Central America's Pacific Coast, media in nearby Mexico reported

* Forbes magazine has released a list of the world's 20 Hottest Young Royals, with British royalty taking the top places and Prince William winning the number one spot

BUSINESS

* Russia's Economics Ministry said:

domestic natural gas output reached 234.3 billion cubic meters in the first four months of 2008, up 1.4% against the same period of last year

production of oil and gas condensate in Russia dropped 0.3% year-on-year in January-April 2008, to 161 million metric tons (1.18 billion bbl)

* Accumulated foreign investment in Russia has exceeded $220 billion, a Russian deputy prime minister said at an international economic conference in Moscow

* Russia's leading air carrier Aeroflot is unlikely to buy the Italian government's 49.9% stake in cash-strapped Alitalia, Aeroflot's director said

* Boeing 787 Dreamliner deliveries for Aeroflot will be delayed by at least two years, Aeroflot's director said

* Russia's agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor will suspend imports of Turkish agricultural produce from June 7 after high levels of chemical fertilizers were found in the products

* Russian co-owners of the joint oil venture TNK-BP, are demanding that the American president and CEO, Robert Dudley, steps down accusing him of putting the interests of BP first.