WORLD
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has not abandoned his intention to grant Russian the official status of a second national language in Ukraine, the deputy chief of the presidential administration said
* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is starting an official visit to Russia to hold talks with the Russian leadership and attend a Middle East Quartet meeting
RUSSIA
* Bomb disposal experts removed more than 900 unexploded World War II artillery shells from a worksite in northwestern Moscow on Wednesday, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to meet his new Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev this May to continue work to improve ties between the two states, the Kremlin said
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to adopt measures aimed at implementing the national climate doctrine approved last year
* The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation
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