* Russian retailers are expected to receive new supplies of imported alcoholic beverages in early July, but a drinks shortage will remain until this fall, alcohol sellers said
* Russia is not fulfilling its obligations to the Council of Europe, the leader of a liberal group of delegates to the council's Parliamentary Assembly said
* Moldova and Ukraine will try to persuade Moldova's breakaway Transdnestr region to have its status determined through multiparty negotiations rather than a plebiscite, the countries' foreign ministers said
* A lawyer acting for former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky met with her client in a Siberian prison Monday to congratulate him on his 43rd birthday and pass congratulations from friends
* Rosneft is planning to invest $350 million in the second stage of the modernization of the Komsomolsk oil refinery by 2010
* The president of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region said he was ready to meet with the Georgian president if they eventually signed an agreement on security guarantees
* Russia could develop and implement long-term repositories for radioactive waste in the next 10 to 15 years, a nuclear official said
* President Vladimir Putin Monday introduced a new convention on the fight against nuclear terrorism and several other documents for ratification by the lower house of Russia's parliament
* A Moscow district Monday declined to review a ruling refusing to rehabilitate the name of Tsar Nicholas II
* Arcelor's decision to merge with world No.1 Mittal Steel proves that Russian companies are being prevented from entering foreign markets, the speaker of the Russian parliament's lower chamber said
* Russia will continue building the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran as scheduled, the country's top nuclear official said
