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* The third round of Russia-U.S. talks on a new nuclear disarmament treaty will start in Geneva on June 22, Russian presidential spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said

* Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said Saturday his country has its own way of development, rather comfortable and realizable, and is not going to join NATO

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands have opened a branch of the St. Petersburg-based Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam

* A Russian-made cargo aircraft that flouted the Indian airspace late on Friday is currently awaiting permission for take-off at Mumbai airport, an airport spokesman said

RUSSIA

* Five workers died after getting poisoned with gas at a construction site in a West Siberian city, a local emergencies spokesman said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday he hopes his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in July in Moscow will promote a new nuclear disarmament treaty

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the Netherlands on Saturday to push ahead with talks on participation in projects in northwest Siberia's Yamal run by Russian energy giant Gazprom

* A Moscow court sanctioned on Saturday the arrest of a Chechen woman suspected of kidnapping the son of the vice president of Russian oil giant Rosneft, a court spokeswoman said

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