Main News of June 1

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia is not supplying arms to Syria which can be used against protesters, Russian President Vladmir Putin said

* Russia’s largest state-controlled oil company Rosneft denied having ever given consideration to buying out BP’s 50 percent stake in its TNK-BP joint venture in Russia, Rosneft President Igor Sechin said

* Britain and the Scandinavian countries have expressed an interest in deliveries of Russian gas via the Nord Stream pipeline system in the Baltic, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during talks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel

* Russian billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov will not run for Moscow mayor in 2015, his press service said on Friday, denying earlier media reports

* Britain is risking the safety of the Russian delegation at the London Olympics by refusing to cooperate with Russia's security services in the run-up to the event, their director Alexander Bortnikov has said

* A Russian rocket successfully put the U.S. Intelsat 19 telecoms satellite into orbit, following a seaborne launch, Russian space officials said

WORLD

* Conditions of imprisonment for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout have been softened and he will be transferred to medium-security prison in Marion, Illinois, his lawyer Albert Dayan said

* President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for his earlier inadvertent reference to the erroneous term "Polish death camp"

* Stock markets dived across the world due to a combination of weak labor market statistics from the U.S., China and the EU and oil prices fall

* Irish voters have backed the EU fiscal pact, early unofficial results showed, The Irish Times said

* Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the incident at a mobile border checkpoint in south-eastern Kazakhstan where 15 bodies have been found was a terrorist attack

* Ukrainan President Viktor Yanukovich signed into law a bill banning smoking and tobacco advertising at Euro 2012 stadiums

* The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential runoff, Mohammed Morsi, has accepted the Charter of National Convent, a declaration drafted by representatives of Egypt’s liberal political forces to ensure broad national representation in any future government, local media reported on Friday, quoting Morsi'e election campaign staff

* Three Serbs and one KFOR soldier were injured in clashes in northern Kosovo

* Ukrainian police have arrested four suspects over bomb attacks that injured dozens in Dnepropetrovsk last month, the country’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Pshonka, said

* A Finnish professor at the University of Copenhagen has been given a five month jail sentence in Denmark for cooperation with Russian secret services, the Copenhagen Post said