WORLD
spiritual leader Dalai Lama due next week* NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen congratulated Viktor Yanukovych on his election as Ukrainian president and said the alliance wanted closer ties with Ukraine
* The government of Haiti could use circus tents as its temporary headquarters in Port-au-Prince after a powerful quake last month flattened the capital, CNN reported
* Bulgaria is holding informal talks with the United States on hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield on its soil, the U.S. ambassador to the East European country said
RUSSIA
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took part in a ceremony to launch production of coalbed methane gas in southwest Siberia
* Pumping of Russian natural gas to Europe via the Baltic Nord Stream pipeline will start in September 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described the national oil sector as "a semi-sacred cow" and urged measures
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