* Ukraine's president renewed his calls to recognize as an act of genocide the allegedly state-orchestrated mass famine that Ukraine suffered in the early years of Soviet rule
* Spain's National Court has issued a warrant to arrest a Russian attorney detained in a major ongoing crackdown on Georgian and Russian organized crime groups in the country
* Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport again dismissed as false the media reports that it had begun delivering Tor M1 anti-aircraft systems to Iran
* A criminal investigation is underway to track down those behind a bomb explosion that occurred on the premises of Moscow University Saturday morning, prosecutors said
* Russian energy giant Gazprom could receive up to 200 billion rubles ($7.5 billion) in extra revenues this year, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said
* Russia's Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service dismissed reports about an outbreak of the mad cow disease in one of the country's southern provinces
* A bus slammed into a residential building in Kazakhstan in the early hours Saturday, leaving 7 people dead and 13 others injured, the Central Asian republic's emergencies ministry said
