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19:59 GMT 15.04.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia and Argentina signed more than 10 agreements concerning various spheres of bilateral relations during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Latin American state

* Russia could build a satellite for the detection and tracking of submarines from space, a defense industry spokesman said

* The Russian yacht Peter I will try to set a new record in 2010 by attempting a round-the-world voyage through the Arctic Ocean during the summer-fall season, the captain said

* Russia's nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko has estimated the country's program on the disposal of weapons-grade plutonium at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion

* Russia is seriously concerned by reports that Russian citizens and ethnic Russians living in Kyrgyzstan are losing their homes and businesses in racially-motivated attacks

* Russian law-enforcement authorities raided the offices of Hewlett-Packard in Moscow to probe into allegations that its executives paid millions of U.S. dollars to win a government contract

* Russian diplomats and special services are trying to return to Russia a 12-year-old boy who has been living for several years in the Dominican Republic, presumably after being abandoned by his Russian adoptive parents

* A film by Russian Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomliennye solntsem 2 (Burnt by the Sun 2), has been selected for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

WORLD

* UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon expressed the international organization's readiness to work with the new Kyrgyz leadership, the General Secretary's spokesman said

* Deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has written a formal letter of resignation, a source in the interim government said

* The Polish plane which crashed while trying to land in western Russia, killing the Polish president and other top officials, made only one attempt to land, the chairperson of the Interstate Aviation Committee said

* The Iran Six began discussing the text of a draft resolution imposing sanctions on Iran over its controversial nuclear program

* Russia will send a delegation headed by the deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to a Tehran nuclear disarmament conference

* The program of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) summit will be reduced to one day at China's request, the Russian President's press-secretary said

* India failed to launch its indigenous GSLV rocket due to engine trouble, the head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said

* For the first time in the history of space exploration two astronauts will celebrate their birthdays on board the International Space Station (ISS)

BUSINESS

* Qatar has invited Russia's Gazprom to take part in projects to extract and produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) after a moratorium is lifted on developing its North Field deposits, the Russian energy giant said

* Aeroflot has signed a deal with a top Russian mobile operator to set up cell phone services on board its aircraft

* Russian law-enforcement authorities raided the offices of Hewlett-Packard in Moscow to probe into allegations that its executives paid millions of U.S. dollars to win a government contract