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Main News of June 13

20:25 GMT 13.06.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The number of documented deaths resulting from the conflict in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2013 has reached 92,901, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said.

RUSSIA

* Russia will use its presidency of the G20 to push for a radical overhaul of the International Monetary Fund and changes to its voting system to give developing economies a stronger voice, President Vladimir Putin said in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti.

* The Russian government must use its budget revenues more carefully and avoid any increases in social spending not supported by economic growth, President Vladimir Putin said.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that moving the disputed collection of Jewish religious texts to the newly built Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow puts the issue to rest.

* A Russian court refused to issue an arrest warrant for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, requested by prosecutors after he failed to appear in court, because he was being questioned by investigators in another city.

* Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced that his Civil Platform party would not take part in the upcoming Moscow mayoral elections.

* Russian police are investigating a suspected embezzlement of 90 million rubles (about $3 million) in tax-payer money allocated for remodeling work at the Bolshoi Theater, the Interior Ministry said.

* The World Health Organization has no right to dictate Russia how to develop its tobacco pricing policies, the Russian chief health inspector said.

* The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the Russian authorities must pay over 28,000 euros to two Russians who took part in an anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus but never received combat allowance.

* The Admiral Nakhimov, a nuclear-powered missile cruiser currently being overhauled and modernized, will rejoin the Russian Navy in 2018 with the most advanced weapons systems for its vessel type, the Sevmash shipyard said.

BUSINESS

* Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft has received a 20 percent stake in a license to develop the Norwegian continental shelf in the Barents Sea, Rosneft said.

* Russian metals giants Evraz and Polymetal have dropped out of the UK’s FTSE 100 index following major falls in their stock value, the London Stock Exchange said, following a regular index review.

SPORT

* Chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who moved back to Russia last year after a decades-long sojourn in France, has left the French Chess Federation and will compete as a member of the Russian Chess Federation said on its website.

* Nearly 70 percent of Russia’s population of 140 million will be involved in the preparation and execution of the 2018 football World Cup, federal sports minister Vitaly Mutko.

* The NHL’s Nashville Predators may face a struggle to retain wing Sergei Kostitsyn after a source at KHL team Avangard Omsk told R-Sport the Russians want him back.