* Cuban lawmakers plan to visit Russia in summer to
meet with their Russian counterparts, a senior Cuban official
said
* The first rail shipment of high-quality Russian flour
has arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and
trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said
* Russian security officers have averted a major terror
attack at a gas station in the Russian North Caucasus republic
of Ingushetia, a police source said
* State-controlled VTB Bank, Russia's second largest
banking institution, said it had granted a 9.66 billion-ruble
($268 million) loan to the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK)
* Japanese police arrested a Pakistani man in connection
with the killing of a Russian woman on Japan's largest island
of Honshu, local media said
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