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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will help Kyrgyzstan to recover and estimate economic losses from recent uprising in the country, a statement published by the bank said

*The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution saying that the regime of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was responsible for the Great Famine (Holodomor) in the Soviet Union in the 1930s

*Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has applied for a U.S. visa to participate in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference from next week, U.S. ambassador to the UN said

* Poland's acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski, has one of the highest ratings of any Polish politician in recent years, the Polish News Agency reported, citing pollster CBOS.

*The extension of Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea will have no influence on Ukraine's prospects for European integration, the Ukrainian foreign minister said

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov accused his predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and her government of causing 100 billion hryvnas ($12.5 billion) in state losses

* The deal to extend Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea opens a new page in mutually beneficial cooperation between Kiev and Moscow and leaves behind an era of hostility, the Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said
* The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office charged nine officials in connection with the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Bishkek in early April, which left dozens of people dead

* Russia will seek to use the momentum created by a deal with Ukraine extending the stay of its naval base in Crimea for a discount on gas prices to forge new long-term partnerships in the air industry, energy and nuclear sectors with Kiev

* Russia has shown the United States the entire package of documents regarding the Customs Union being established with Belarus and Kazakhstan

RUSSIA

*Two of the seven towers of the ancient Pskov Kremlin in northwest Russia were seriously damaged by a fire that broke out at midnight on Tuesday, local emergency services said

*The Moscow city authorities have given permission for nine rallies and marches to be held on May 1, the mayor's press service said

*Russia is ready to discuss human rights with other countries, but will solve existing problems on its own, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Statistics do not reflect the real level of the terrorist threat in Russia, the prosecutor general said

* Some 40 Olympic facilities will be fully completed in the Winter Olympic 2014 host city of Sochi by the end of 2010, and 144 will be under construction a Russian deputy premier said

* Leading Russian business daily Vedomosti has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house

* Russia's federal archive agency will provide access to digital copies of documents on the Katyn massacre to end speculation about their authenticity

* The upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, ratified a deal with Ukraine to extend the lease on a Russian naval base

BUSINESS

*Russian holding Digital Sky Technologies Ltd. (DST) has agreed to buy ICQ messenger from U.S. company AOL for $187.5 million, the two companies said in a joint statement

*Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave the go-ahead for commercial oil production in the Russian part of the Caspian Sea by the country's largest independent oil producer, LUKoil.

* The price of Russian natural gas for Ukraine in the second quarter of the year will be $236 per 1,000 cubic meters, including a 30% discount, a Gazprom executive said

* Danish company Novo Nordisk, a world leader in production of anti-diabetic medicine, has signed an agreement to build an insulin plant in Kaluga, the regional administration's press service said

* One of the U.S's largest coffee chains Dunkin' Donuts has re-entered the Russian market and has plans for expansion, the company's franchisee for Russia and Ukraine said

*Russian prosecutors have asked the United States to pass on information about corrupt practices at German auto giant Daimler AG to help investigate allegations of bribery in Russia