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Main news of April 30

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 30.04.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* Former Ukrainian premier and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said that Russia is planning to deprive her country of sovereignty by proposing a merger of both countries' largest gas companies

* Chinese leader Hu Jintao officially announced the opening of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

* Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies have charged the head of the presidential administration of Kyrgyzstan's ousted leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev with abuse of power, his lawyer said, the 24.kg news website reported

* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not be welcome at a UN nuclear conference in New York next week if he tries to disrupt the talks

* Belgium is set to become Europe's first country to ban women from covering their face in public as the lower chamber of parliament approved the bill

* An opposition lawmaker has requested the Ukrainian Prosecutor General to launch a criminal case against President Viktor Yanukovych's son, who allegedly attacked him during the recent brawl in the country's parliament

RUSSIA

* Russian police have broken up a 270-billion-ruble (about $9 billion) money-laundering operation run by four * Azerbaijani nationals and several Russian bank employees, the Interior Ministry said

* Russian long range ballistic missiles for S-400 Triumph surface-to-air missile systems will go into serial production in the autumn, a leading missile manufacturer said

BUSINESS

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on that Russia's energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's gas monopoly Naftogaz should create a joint holding

* Russia's VTB bank is ready to grant Ukraine a loan of up to $500 million to finance its budget spending, a Russian government official said

* Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on duty-free export of Ukrainian steel pipes into Russia at a volume of 260,000 metric tons annually

* Russia's Gazprom and Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz are ready to consider an issue of assets swap, the head of the Russian energy giant said

* Russia's Atomenergomash and Ukraine's Turboatom may create a nuclear joint venture, Russia's nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine is beginning to see political stabilization, which should be followed by economic stabilization

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