News of the Day, 15:00 Moscow time

* The Collective Security Treaty Organization's rapid-reaction force is scheduled to hold exercises in August-September 2009, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov announced

* Russia does not plan to cut budget spending on the development of the country's nuclear deterrent despite the ongoing economic crisis, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said

* Russia will put the first regiment of new-generation RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles into service in late 2009, the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) commander, Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, said

* Russia's food safety regulator Rosselkhoznadzor has lifted a ban on pork imports from five U.S. states imposed earlier due to the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus

* A committee at Russia's space training center, Star City, have announced the crew line up for the 20th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), a RIA Novosti correspondent said

* Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Chugunov, a deputy head of the Moscow police responsible for personnel policy, has tendered his resignation following a shooting involving an off-duty officer in a supermarket last week, a police source said

* Ten people were killed and another ten injured in a blaze caused by an explosion in a slot machine arcade in east Ukraine, a local emergencies spokesman said

* A Moscow winery is under investigation by Russia's industrial safety regulator after an industrial accident led to a local river in western Moscow being polluted with ammonia, a spokesman said