Main news of April 27

A round up of what happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Moscow hailed the ratification of a deal to extend the lease on a Russian naval base in Crimea, which took place amid clashes and brawls, both outside and inside the Ukrainian parliament

 

* Ukrainian police and the country's opposition has clashed in front of the Ukrainian parliament where a controversial agreement on Russia's naval base is due to be ratified, Ukrainian Ukrainskaya Pravda said

 

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Tuesday in Denmark

 

* If the international community showed the necessary political will the dispute with Iran over the proposed nuclear fuel exchange could be resolved, Tehran's foreign minister said

 

* It is "unjust" to call the Stalin-era famine that killed millions across the Soviet Union a genocide of the Ukrainian people, President Viktor Yanukovych said

 

* Officials in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi have voted to rename a street in honor of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski

 

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych congratulated each other on the simultaneous ratification of a Russian naval base deal, the Kremlin's press service reported

 

* The Ukrainian parliament has ratified a controversial naval deal with Russia on extending a Navy base in Crimea for another 25 years after the current lease expires in 2017

 

* The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by Russia on the creation of a special body to try hijackers captured during anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast

 

* The leaders of Ukraine, Belarus, the United States and Britain will not attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on May 9, a Kremlin official said

 

* A half-finished apartment in an elite Moscow building is on the market for 50% more than the largest apartment in New York's Trump Tower, a realtor in the Russian capital told RIA Novosti

 

* Two Russian warships grouped in the Indian Ocean for joint maneuvers, the Black Sea Fleet press service reported

 

* After almost 40 years of talks, Russia and Norway reached an agreement on the demarcation of their maritime borders in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said

 

* The European Court of Human Rights will announce on May 17 its verdict on the former Soviet partisan case involving a WWII veteran accused of killing villagers during the war, defense lawyer Mikhail Ioffe said

 

BUSINESS

* A U.S. senator has urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to impose a ban on visas for 60 Russian officials and other individuals in a $230 million corruption case that lead to the death of a Moscow anti-corruption lawyer, the U.S. Helsinki Commission website said

 

* The Russian government will allow the import of 260,000 metric tons of steel pipes annually from Ukraine duty free, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

 

* Nobel laureate Roger David Kornberg, a U.S. biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, will co-chair the scientific-technical council of the Russian "Silicon Valley," Skolkovo, the first deputy head of the presidential administration said