* A Mi-2 transport helicopter with seven people
onboard went missing in Russia's Tomsk region, in southwestern
Siberia, a spokesman for the regional emergencies department
said
* Svetlana Bakhmina, a former lawyer for now defunct oil
company Yukos jailed on embezzlement and tax evasion charges,
has not been released despite a court ruling, relatives and
lawyers said
* Russia's two main stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS,
opened trading with their key indexes going up after a two-day
slump
* A Moscow Arbitration Appeals Court quashed an appeal by
tax authorities against an earlier court ruling on rejecting
back tax claims against auditing firm Ernst & Young totaling
390 million rubles ($11.8 million)
* Three servicemen died in Russia's North Caucasus
republic of Chechnya after their vehicle came under fire, a
police source said
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