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RUSSIA

* The United Nations conference on racism which opened in Geneva on Monday should give an impetus to the struggle against intolerance, a Russian deputy foreign minister said

* The official number of the unemployed people in Russia currently stands at 2.26 million, the country's Health and Social Development Ministry said

* Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov played down on Tuesday reports of impending terrorist attacks, saying the security situation in the south Russian republic remained stable and under control

* A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Svetlana Bakhmina, a mother of three and former lawyer for now defunct oil company Yukos, jailed on embezzlement and tax evasion charges

* Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev denied all the charges against them in a trial in Moscow

* An investigation has been launched into a suspected arson attack in Moscow that took the lives of a French businessman, his wife and their two-year-old daughter

* Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry has delivered 18,000 tons of flour to Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, the ministry press service announced

* The first six Mi-28N Night Hunter attack helicopters have been delivered to Russia's North Caucasus military district, a military source said

* A court in Russia's Far Eastern port city of Nakhodka found the Indonesian captain of a Chinese freighter that sank in February guilty of border violation, an aide to the local prosecutor said

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* The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized a speech made by Iran's outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN World Conference Against Racism in Geneva

* The French father, whose 3-year-old daughter was snatched last month by her Russian mother, said he is against joint custody but in favor of visitation rights as long as he has a guarantee the girl will return to France

* Moldova's top election authority announced on Tuesday the final results of a parliamentary vote recount, confirming victory for the country's Communist Party

* The Hamas movement is threatening to abduct more Israeli soldiers to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, a Syria-based Hamas leader told journalists

* Russia and China signed an intergovernmental agreement on oil cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday, under which a new branch from the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline will be built toward China

* Kazakhstan will not take part in NATO-led military exercises in Georgia in May, the Kazakh defense minister said