Main news of February 22

RUSSIA

* Russia is beginning to capture new arms markets of Arab countries that were earlier oriented to the West, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation said

* A cash courier and a driver were robbed of over 43 million rubles ($1.2 million) in an attack by armed robbers in the Tula Region in central Russia, local police said

* Russia's Olga Zaitseva won a 12.5 km women's mass start biathlon race at the World Cup competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea

* Two police officers were killed and one wounded in an attack by an unidentified assailant in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, a local police source said

WORLD

* At least 73 miners died and dozens of others were trapped underground in a blast that hit a coal mine in northern China, the official news agency Xinhua reported

* Pirates seized a Greek cargo ship with 22-member crew off the coast of Somalia, Greece's merchant marine ministry said.

* Police from Poland's Central Investigation Bureau and Bureau of Anti-Terrorist Operations arrested an ethnic Chechen on suspicion of being involved in the January 13 murder of Umar Israilov, the former bodyguard of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, Warsaw police said