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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* A festival showcasing performance of Russian drama in its original language by Russian-American actors is set to open in June in New York in what organizers said Friday is the first event of its kind in the United States for adult audiences

* Japan and South Korea have partially suspended US wheat imports after genetically modified crops that have never been approved for growing were discovered in Oregon, officials and wheat industry representatives said

* Members of the European Parliament have criticized Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin’s plans to reinstate agents of the former state security service in their diplomatic positions, the Sofia News Agency reported

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has assured European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that the new model of cooperation between Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Union is not in conflict with Ukraine’s WTO membership or its strategic course of Euro-integration, the presidential press service said

* Hollywood star Steven Seagal has pledged to dedicate his life to fight against terrorism as he visited on Saturday the ruined school in Beslan, Russia's North Ossetia, the scene of the bloody hostage crisis in 2004

* The Canadian-owned Kumtor gold mine in northern Kyrgyzstan, that has been rocked by mass protests this week demanding its nationalization, resumed operations on Saturday, the vice president of Kumtor Operating Company (KOC), which runs the mine, said

* The Czech Helsinki Committee (CHV) has questioned the decision to extradite Russian businessman Alexei Torubarov to Russia because his asylum request was not given proper consideration, the CTK news agency reported

* The United States move to send a missile shield to the Pacific island of Guam could upset the strategic balance of power in the Asia-Pacific Region, a Russian defense official said

* Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted that the use of tear gas by police at a protest against the demolition of Gezi Park in central Istanbul was a mistake, but said there will be no step back from the project

* Thousands of Latvian non-citizens took part in alternative parliamentary polls, the Non-citizen Congress movement has said

RUSSIA

* An anti-smoking law that bans smoking in public, including in government buildings, healthcare and educational facilities, cultural sites, sports stadiums and on public transport, comes into force in Russia

* A policeman in the Siberian city of Omsk was accused of allegedly shooting a local pensioner from a non-lethal gun after both of them argued over a playground swing, the Investigative Committee said in a statement

* Policemen in Russia’s west Siberian city of Novokuznetsk arrested a man, who took hostage a 16-year-old girl demanding a date with her older sister, the local Interior Ministry’s department said in a statement

* The Russian Armed Forces will hold some 500 military drills at various levels this summer, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement

* Six people were killed, including a child, and two injured after a passenger bus collided with a car in Russia’s southern Volgograd region on early Saturday, a spokesman for the local Interior Ministry’s department said

*A police officer has been injured in a firefight with a group of gunmen in Chechnya, a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti

* The military colleges of the Russian Defense Ministry will graduate almost 12,000 young officers this year, a ministry official said

* The mayor of Dagestan's capital Makhachkala, Said Amirov, has been detained on suspicion of having organized a murder of a Russian investigator, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said

* A thief has stolen 30 million rubles ($939,000) from a bank in south-west Moscow, local police said

SPORT

* League champions CSKA Moscow won the Russian Cup on Saturday, beating Anzhi Makhachkala 4-3 on penalties to complete their first double since 2006

* Maria Kirilenko overcame a tough first set to defeat Stefanie Voegele in the third round of the French Open

* Maria Sharapova moved to the fourth round of the French Open on Saturday with an easy victory over China’s Jie Zheng

* Ukrainian pole vault great Sergei Bubka revealed Saturday that his sixth outdoor pole vault world record, set at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow in 1986, was one of the most difficult to achieve