News of the Day, 12:00 Moscow time

* An ex-Russian army colonel released on parole in 2008 after serving time for killing an 18-year-old Chechen woman, has been interrogated as a suspect in the murder of three Chechen residents, Russian investigators said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend a meeting of Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) premiers to discuss joint anti-crisis measures, a customs union, and other issues.

* Russia's government will spend over 586 billion rubles ($18.85 billion) to develop the country's transport sector in 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said

* Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay an official visit to Russia on June 14-18, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Russia's consumer rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor has banned the imports of another 800 dairy products from Belarus, the watchdog's head, Gennady Onishchenko, said

* Gazprom is holding talks with independent gas producer Novatek on its possible participation in a liquefied natural gas project in northwest Siberia, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said

* The Brazilian Navy has recovered a large section of the tail fin of an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last week, and a total of 24 bodies have also been found

* The bodies of six miners have been recovered after Monday's coal mine accident in eastern Ukraine, while seven miners are still missing, a spokesman for rescuers working at the scene said