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18:00 GMT 13.04.2009

RUSSIA

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved regulations for granting subsidies to air carriers which will see some 5 billion rubles ($150 million) being allocated from the budget for these purposes in 2009

* The Russian Foreign Ministry officially confirmed that Somali pirates have released the Norwegian-owned chemical tanker Bow Asir with a Russian crewmember onboard

* Oleg Mitvol, an outspoken Russian environmental official, announced his resignation on Monday following a long-running dispute with his superiors, saying he was no longer being given meaningful work

* Flight tests of Russia's new cargo spacecraft will start in 2016-17, the general designer of the RSC Energia rocket manufacturer said

* A Sierra Leone-flagged ship has been stopped by border guards in Russia's Far East Sea of Okhotsk on suspicion of poaching, a regional coast guard spokesman said

* Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported

WORLD

* Thousands of Georgians moved their protests to the presidential residence on Monday to press on with demands for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign

* U.S. President Barack Obama said that Washington was determined to stamp out piracy off the coast of Somalia after a dramatic rescue mission ended with U.S. navy snipers shooting dead three pirates

* A decision on providing Ukraine with the second tranche of a stabilization loan from the International Monetary Fund will be made in mid-May, the Ukrainian presidential secretariat said

* A 3-year-old girl believed to have been kidnapped by her Russian mother in France last month was returned to her French father on Monday, the Russian Embassy in Hungary said

* Hundreds of Thai troops gathered outside Government House in Bangkok on Monday evening in the final stages of a crackdown on protests that has left dozens injured

* Ukrainians say the country's third president, Viktor Yushchenko, whose term of office is to end late this or early next year, is the worst head of state since Ukraine gained independence in 1991

BUSINESS

* Serbia's government will soon send a delegation to Moscow for negotiations on obtaining a Russian loan to build a subway system in Belgrade, Serb economics minister Mladan Dinkic said

* Russia's Gazprom has demanded that Ukraine pay a fine of around $530 million for its failure to import the contracted volume of natural gas, business daily Kommersant Ukraina reported

* The Russian-British oil venture TNK-BP is interested in buying oil producer Sibir Energy for 2.3 billion British pounds ($3.38 billion), a business paper reported

SPORTS

* Chelsea Football Club chairman Bruce Buck confirmed that coach Guus Hiddink, the Dutch trainer of the Russian national side, will not stay with the club after May

* CSKA Moscow made a dramatic return to form on Sunday as they beat cross-town rivals Lokomotiv 4-1, with reported Chelsea target Alan Dzagoyev finding the net twice