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WORLD

*The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it does not expect a boycott of next month's Euro 2012 football championship by Western leaders to materialize.

*The Indonesian government will take control of the investigation into a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash, with Russian teams to have their movements limited, vice presidential spokesman Yopie Hidayat said on Tuesday, The Jakarta Post reported.

*France’s new President Francois Hollande will head for Berlin later on Tuesday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately after his inauguration as the Fifth Republic's seventh president.

*Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a seven-year jail term over her role in the signing of a 2009 gas deal with Russia, has refused to continue medial treatment for spinal disk herniation, Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister Alexander Tolstanov said.

 

RUSSIA

*Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will start consultations with new government member candidates on Wednesday.

*Allegations that the banned opposition camp in downtown Moscow bred crime and disorder are untrue and politically motivated, opposition lawmaker Dmitry Gudkov said, citing local police.

 

BUSINESS

*Russia's economy grew 4.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2012, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

*Investigators are searching the Moscow office of leading Russian home electronics retailer, Eldorado, in a tax evasion probe, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

 

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