Main News of June 3

WORLD

* Iran has not provided the International Atomic Energy Agency with sufficient information to substantiate its claim that its nuclear program is peaceful, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said Monday. An Iranian official in Moscow later called the allegation “unfounded”

* Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev has lifted a state of emergency imposed last week in a district near the country's massive Kumtor gold mine, one of the nation's largest earners, following a blockade and riots near the site lasting several days

* NATO is concerned by the situation on the Georgia-South Ossetia border, where Russian forces put up wire fences along the border last week, NATO's envoy for the South Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai said

* NATO countries start large-scale security cooperation exercises on the territory of the former Soviet republics in the Baltic region, the Estonian military said

RUSSIA

* The Moscow City Court started preliminary hearings into the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the RAPSI legal news service reported

* The mayor of the capital of Russia’s restive Dagestan region, who was recently jailed on suspicion of having organized the murder of a local investigator, has denounced the case against him as politically motivated, his lawyer said

* The physical fitness of Russia's soldiers remains inadequate due to the poor state of recruits and shoddy training, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said

* Russia’s Project 885 Yasen-class attack submarine, the Severodvinsk, has embarked on its latest series of official tests in the White Sea, the manufacturer said

* A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying a SES-6 telecommunications satellite has lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Khrunichev space company said

* A Moscow court convicted four men of kidnapping the son of software empire founder Yevgeny Kaspersky