* Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed El-Baradei said the Iran's nuclear issue could be resolved through a dialogue
*Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia Alexy II has donated a monetary part of his state prize for outstanding humanitarian work to orphanages and charity organizations
* Kyrgyzstan's foreign minister said the Shanhai Cooperation Organization, a Eurasian security bloc comprising five former Soviet republics and China, was unlikely to expand soon
* A lawyer representing interests of former Moldovan defense minister Valery Pasat, who was sentenced to a long prison term earlier this year, said his client had been transferred from a prison medical unit to an interior ministry's hospital
* Moscow police said a U.S citizen was attacked and robbed Sunday night in the center of the Russian capital
* The president of the Kurchatov research institute said Sevmash shipyard company would sign a contract with state-owned nuclear power generating monopoly Rosenergoatom to construct and test a floating nuclear reactor on June 14
* Russia's economics minister German Gref said he hoped that the construction of a toll highway between two largest cities in the country could start in 2007
* The state-owned oil company Rosneft said its net profits for 1Q 2006 calculated to U.S. GAAP were $802 million, up from $724 million during the same period of 2005
