* Russia's foreign minister said that the next meeting of the six nations seeking to resolve the crisis around Iran's controversial nuclear programs would consider inviting other members of the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency
* Yulia Tymoshenko restated her desire to become Ukraine's prime minister for a second time
* Two police officers had been shot dead in the south of Moscow allegedly by members of a Moscow-based organized crime group set up by ethnic Georgians
* A lawyer for a suspect detained in connection with the killing of an Armenian student last weekend in the Moscow subway said his client had been freed
* A senior executive said Evraz Group, a leading mining and metallurgical company in Russia, would increase the share of its stocks circulating on the London Stock Exchange from 14% to 25%
* Officials said the first tranche of financial aid from Russia worth 280 million rubles ($10.2 million) had arrived in Moldova's breakaway Transdnestr region
* KazTransGaz plans to close a deal to buy Georgian regional gas distribution firm Tbilgaz in late May, the state-owned Kazakh natural gas transport company's General Director Serik Sultangaziyev said
* A senior security service official said terrorist attacks averted by Russia's security forces in the south of the country were ordered by terror networks in the Middle East and Central Asia
* Russia's health minister called on his G8 counterparts to back the creation of international rapid-response units to combat pandemics that arise in the wake of natural disasters
* The head of the Air Force said an air-to-air missile exploded at an air base outside Moscow, killing two servicemen
