Main news of March 23

RUSSIA

* Russia will start reviewing its relations with the European Union should Moscow's interests be ignored, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* The Russian government has adopted a resolution reducing the list of arms and military equipment subject to export control, the government press service said

* Boris Nemtsov, an opposition candidate for mayor of Sochi in south Russia, was attacked with ammonia before a news conference on Monday, but was not injured

* Interpol Russia has joined a hunt to find a three-year-old girl, snatched from her father in France allegedly by her Russian mother, in what is believed to be part of an ongoing custody row, an Interpol spokesperson said

* Fourth seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia won both the singles and doubles titles at the weekend in the $4.5 million BNP Paribas Open in California's Indian Wells

* Siberian side Tom Tomsk FC took all three points from their visit to Moscow on Monday evening, beating CSKA 1-0

WORLD

* Serbian President Boris Tadic and Kosovan Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni took part on Monday in an open session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo

* An explosion in south Lebanon on Monday killed at least five people, including a senior representative of Palestinian refugees, local media reported

* Four people were arrested on Monday in the Indian resort of Goa on charges of assaulting police who tried to break up an unauthorized beach party, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti

* China's defense minister has reaffirmed the country's plans to build its own aircraft carrier, the Sina news agency reported

* The kidnapped three-year-old daughter of a divorced Russian and French couple is believed to be in Russia, an interior ministry spokeswoman for transportation told RIA Novosti

* China is ready to discuss Russia's proposal of a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the U.S. dollar at the G20 summit in London, a vice governor of the country's Central Bank said

* Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party signed its second coalition deal on Monday, with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party

* Two pilots died when their MD-11 cargo plane, which had taken off from Guangzhou in China, crashed at Tokyo's Narita Airport, national media said

BUSINESS

* Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot has filed a bid for a tender to purchase a 91.5% stake in Czech Airlines (CSA), Aeroflot's press office said