* Two U.S. Air Force bombers violated Iranian air space last week, a Tehran-based Arabic language news channel, Al-Alam, said
* Iranian television will no longer broadcast film of the detained British Navy personnel due to 'positive changes' in Britain's stance on the issue, Iranian state radio said
* Ukraine requested the postponement of President Viktor Yushchenko's visit to Moscow, which was due to start April 3, over an escalating political crisis in the ex-Soviet state, the Kremlin press office said
* U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez said a Soviet-era Jackson-Vanik amendment restricting trade with Russia could be lifted to improve bilateral ties
* A new anonymous witness in the case of a former Russian security officer poisoned in London last year implicated U.K.-based fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky in an interview with state television Sunday
* Experts from the international nuclear watchdog have started a follow-up inspection of a nuclear power plant in southern Russia, the plant said in a statement
* At least six companies will bid for a 20% stake in Gazprom Neft owned by Yukos at an auction of the bankrupt company's assets, Russia's Federal Property Fund said
* Russia's technological watchdog has suspended work at 33 mines for five days due to breaches in work safety, Rostekhnadzor said
* Prosecutors have charged three medical staff at a private clinic in southern Russia with illegally testing Belgian-made vaccines on children between one and two years of age
* Russia's ban on foreign traders working at retail markets will leave prices unaffected, the top migration official said on the second day after the law came into effect
* At least 21 people are dead in the aftermath of two earthquakes and a tsunami in the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific, regional mass media agencies said
* Russia will oversee a month-long exercise of the Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task Group (Blackseafor), a Black Sea Fleet official said
* Atomenergomash and France's Alstom have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to manufacture equipment for nuclear power plants, nuclear power monopoly Rosatom said
* General Motors has decided to invest $300 million in a new car assembly plant near St. Petersburg, the city's economics, industrial policy and trade committee said
* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev appointed a number of ministers to the new coalition government, the presidential press service said
