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19:59 GMT 15.05.2013

WORLD

* North Korea effectively dismissed Seoul’s proposal for negotiations on removal of production materials and finished goods from the two nations' jointly-run Kaesong Industrial Complex, the Yonhap news agency said

* Leaflets expressing support for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have appeared in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, which neighbors Kyrgyzstan, where the Tsarnaev brothers lived with their family before moving to the United States, regional media said

* A senior Russian military official attributed the recent review of the US missile defense plans in Europe to economic and technological problems

* Foreign ministers from the Arctic Council’s member states have signed a legally binding agreement on preventing and responding to oil spills in the Arctic to protect the region’s waters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

RUSSIA

* The CIA has long been working hard to infiltrate Russian security and intelligence services, a man identified as a Federal Security Service (FSB) officer told Russia’s Channel 1 TV the day after the FSB said a CIA agent had been detained in Moscow while trying to recruit a Russian security services agent

* President Vladimir Putin will take up the issues of missile defense and cooperation between the US and Russian security and intelligence services in a written reply to US President Barack Obama’s recent message to the Russian leader, a Russian presidential aide said

* The security services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states will be closely monitoring the movement of mercenaries from CIS nations fighting in Syria, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said

BUSINESS

* Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to offer foreign investors up to a 50 percent share in a project to build a liquefied natural (LNG) plant near Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East, Gazprom Deputy CEO Vitaly Markelov said