Main news of February 9

RUSSIA

* Japan's Defense Ministry said a Russian bomber briefly violated the country's airspace early in the morning, but Russia denied the reports

* Reducing inflation is a priority for Russia, as inflation hampers long-term investment in industry and processing branches, Russia's finance minister said

* One person died and two got poisoned with combustion products in a fire in eastern Moscow, emergencies services said

* A traffic policeman in the capital of the Russian troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya was hospitalized after accidentally wounding himself, a police source said

WORLD

* NATO should actively cooperate with Moscow, as no serious global problem could be resolved without Russia, the German defense minister said at a security conference in Munich

* Germany's vice chancellor and foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called on world powers to stop a new arms race, saying Russia's participation in the move would be required

* Turkey's parliament adopted a bill lifting a constitutional ban on wearing headscarves at public universities

* Ukrainian police detained a resident of the northeastern town of Chernihiv in an airport near Kiev on suspicion of intending to take three girls to Turkey to make sexual slaves out of them, police said