* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko reinstated Oleksandr Medvedko as Prosecutor General, the government's press service said
* Ukraine's parliament amended the 2007 budget to earmark 365 million hryvnias ($72 million) for early elections the president called in April
* A Russian opposition party, People's Democratic Union, forwarded its leader and former premier Mikhail Kasyanov as candidate for the 2008 presidential elections
* Ruslan Izmailov, economics minister of Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, was killed in a road accident Friday night, a local Interior Ministry spokesperson said
* Atomstroyexport, Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly, said Russia and China had signed a commissioning document on the first unit of Tianwan nuclear power plant in China
