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18:15 GMT 16.04.2009

RUSSIA

* Russia's top investigators overruled a decision on Thursday to resume a probe into the 2004 death of Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov

* Russia's legendary Yelena Isinbayeva, who has broken the world pole vault record 26 times, has been nominated for world sportswoman of the year, a press release by the Laureus sports academy said

* The counter-terrorism operation that was launched in Russia's volatile republic of Chechnya in 1999 finished at midnight, the Russian National Anti-terrorism Committee said

* The Investigation Committee of the Southern Federal District Prosecutor's Office has resumed a probe into the death of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in 2004, a Russian police source said

* Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak has been charged with attempted fraud 18 months after he was arrested, the Prosecutor General's Office said

* A Chinese woman, who became ill on a Moscow-bound train, died of acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI), not SARS, investigators said

* Spartak Moscow have dismissed Danish coach Michael Laudrup after a dismal 3-0 home defeat to cross-town rivals Dynamo in the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup

* A regional court in southern Russia upheld on Thursday the decision of a lower court to refuse former Bolshoi Theater ballerina Anastasia Volochkova to run in the Sochi mayoral elections

WORLD

* The European Court of Human Rights held its first hearing on Thursday on a case lodged by Georgia against Russia two years ago over alleged human rights violations

* Abkhazia's leader reiterated that his republic does not want peace observers from the European Union, but said they should continue to be deployed in neighboring Georgia as a safeguard against aggression

* A senior Russian politician has expressed "surprise" and "indignation" at the contents of a report by an influential U.S. think tank that calls for "minimal nuclear deterrence"

* Tens of millions of people throughout India began voting on Thursday, in a month-long election that is unlikely to produce an outright winner

* The Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) dismissed reports on Thursday that Uzbekistan was going to pull out of the post-Soviet regional security group

* A new lawyer has been found for the only gunman captured alive during last November's terrorist attack in Mumbai, and the trial will resume on Friday, Indian media reported

* The UN nuclear watchdog has confirmed that its inspectors left North Korea on Thursday morning

* Russia's Foreign Ministry welcomed on Thursday the decision by a Hungarian court to keep a Russian woman, accused of kidnapping her daughter from her ex-husband, in detention until an extradition request is issued by France

* Protest organizers in Tbilisi, who are demanding that President Mikheil Saakashvili step down, have established unarmed "defense units" to maintain order, a Conservative Party representative said

* Russia's foreign minister criticized on Thursday NATO's plans to conduct exercises in Georgia, saying they could give the Georgian regime a sense of impunity, and raise tensions in the Caucasus region

* A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a police checkpoint in Tangi in Pakistan's northwest Charsadda District on Thursday morning, killing 15 people, Afghan radio reported

* A landslide hit a village in south Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad province early on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, the Emergency Situations Ministry said