Main News of May 30

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours.

 

World

 

* Georgian police said they had arrested 24 members of an armed group that was planning attacks in an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country

 

* Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said Russia was behind rallies staged by the opposition in the capital, Tbilisi

 

 Russia

 

* Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are appealing for parole after serving more than half of their sentences

 

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended a memorial ceremony for Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh

 

* The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has established that the investigator who handled the Sergei Magnitsky case has done no wrong, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said