Main News of May 28

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul reacted to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s criticism by writing in his Twitter microblog that he is “still learning the craft of speaking more diplomatically”

* Egypt’s Supreme Presidential Election Commission has confirmed that former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq and Muslim Brotherhood representative Mohammed Mursi will compete in a presidential runoff vote on June 16-17, commission head Farouk Sultan said

* Five police officers were jailed for their heavy-handed response to a protest by striking oil workers in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan last year, the Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency said

* Both government forces and rebels were responsible for this weekend’s massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Iranian security forces have arrested a man on suspicion of spying for an Arab state's intelligence agency, the Fars news agency reported

RUSSIA

* Four Russian bikers detained in Iraq on May 20 for illegally crossing the Iraqi border and released on Friday have returned to Moscow

* Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday criticized U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul for statements he made at a meeting with students of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow a few days earlier

* Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kazakhstan on a working visit

* Russia and the United Kingdom are experiencing a thaw in relations, with the two nations agreeing to restore regular diplomatic meetings, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday during a meeting with his British counterpart William Hague

DEFENSE

* Russia’s Defense Ministry and United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) have signed a contract for the delivery of five new Borey class (Project 955) strategic nuclear submarines, USC spokesman Alexei Kravchenko said

BUSINESS

* Mikhail Fridman, chief executive officer of Russian-British joint venture TNK-BP, has resigned as the company's CEO due to a collapse of corporate management, a source close to the company said

* The number of resumes being submitted to Russian recruitment agencies has increased sharply in recent years, as the European debt crisis has dampened the economies of the eurozone, Kommersant business daily reported quoting experts

SPORTS

* Russian 11th seed Vera Zvonareva withdrew from the French Open ahead of her first-round match on Monday due to a shoulder injury

* Russian 27th seed Nadia Petrova booked her place in the second round of the French Open on Monday with a straightforward win over Czech player Iveta Benesova