Main News of May 20

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Four people were killed and almost 40 wounded by twin car bomb blasts in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's republic of Dagestan on Monday, the Russian Health Ministry said

* Russian police killed two suspected militants and detained another in a special operation outside Moscow on Monday, preventing a terror attack in the capital, the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) said

* A respected independent Russian pollster may have to close after receiving official notice from prosecutors that they expect the organization to register as a “foreign agent” under a controversial new law, it said

* The president of Russia's Skolkovo Foundation, billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg has been questioned by the Investigative Committee over an alleged misuse of funds to support the opposition, the foundation’s deputy head Alexander Chernov said

* Russia will need from three to five years to exit stagnation and build an efficient economy, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday

WORLD

* Four Turkish nationals were sentenced on Monday to 90 years in prison after they were found guilty of lethal poisoning a group of Russian tourists in 2011, a lawyer said

* Moscow is deeply concerned with reports of North Korea's latest missile tests and hopes that a meeting of intermediaries on the North Korean nuclear issue settlement will be held in the nearest future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday

* North Korea launched another two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday, marking the third straight day of firings, South Korea's defense ministry said, Yonhap reported

* A retired US diplomat and expert on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, the New York Times said on Sunday