The Russian Information Agency Novosti begins Hotline coverage for Sunday, June 13, 2004.
VLADIVOSTOK
* A group of Russian border-guard ships will set out on a friendly visit to the South Korean port of Pusan. In the group are escort ships the Primorye and the Nevelsk of the Pacific regional border-guard department of the FSB. Within this visit, a Russian-South Korean border-guard counter terrorist exercise will be held near Pusan in the Sea of Japan on June 16.
VILNIUS
* An extraordinary presidential election campaign will be held in Lithuania. The reason is that the former head of state, Ronaldas Paksas, was removed from power on April 6 as a result of impeachment.
BELGRADE
* A presidential election is due in Serbia.
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