- Relations between Russia and the United States can only be constructed on equal terms
- Russia will protect its economic interests against unfair competition
- Russia should boost cooperation with China and India
- Neighboring nations' criticism of Russia's decision to charge market prices for energy supplies is surprising
- Russia and the U.S. should renew negotiations on replacing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires in 2009
- Russia will continue peacekeeping missions in conflict zones in the former Soviet space
* President Putin signed a federal law giving Russian border guards the authority to let fishing vessels cross the state border more than once without the need for border or customs controls
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country would make every effort to bring to justice the murderers of four Russian diplomats killed in Iraq earlier this month, and urged U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq to improve security levels in the country, including for foreigners working there
* Russian Presidential Envoy Anatoly Safonov said Russia would determine how far coalition forces in Iraq were responsible for the execution by Islamic extremists of four Russian diplomats there
* Russian energy giant Gazprom said it expected its shelf reserves to grow by 2.3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas and 191 million metric tons of oil in 2006-2010
* A military court in Chelyabinsk in the Urals said it had adjourned until July 4 the trial of three soldiers accused of carrying out one of the most brutal cases of hazing in the Russian army
* Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, who was confirmed by the upper house of parliament in his new position on Friday, said senior Russian law officers will fly to London to discuss the extradition of individuals wanted in Russia
* Members of Ukraine's Party of Regions have blocked the rostrum in the country's parliament in a bid to thwart a session of the Supreme Rada
* Ukraine's Party of Regions said it was prepared to continue thwarting the work of the country's parliament until its demands are met
* A representative of pro-presidential bloc Our Ukraine said the bloc had put forward Petro Poroshenko, a businessman and former secretary of Ukraine's Security Council, as its candidate for parliamentary speaker
* Russia's top nuclear official said the country would spend 10 times more on civilian nuclear and radiation safety programs in 2007 than this year
* Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said it would file lawsuits with international arbitration courts over illegal production of Russian small arms and light weapons abroad, particularly Kalashnikov automatic rifles
