Medvedev, Harper discuss G-20, G-8 Jun summits' agendas.

MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - A telephone conversation between Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was
held on Tuesday on the initiative of the Canadian side, the Kremlin press
service reports.
During the conversation Harper told Medvedev his vision of the agendas
of the forthcoming summits of the Group of Twenty (G-20) and the Group of
Eight (G-8), due to be held within the last ten days of June.
When discussing G-20 activities, Medvedev and Harper touched upon
problems concerning a global financial regulation and a reform of
international financial institutions, and exchanged their estimates of the
crisis in the Euro Area and measures to overcome it. Both sides pointed
with satisfaction to the coincidence or proximity of their positions on
those matters.
The President of Russia declared in support of Harper's initiatives
which are being brought up for discussion at the G-8 summit in Toronto,
specifically additional efforts towards reducing maternal and infant
mortality rate in developing countries, and promote the development of
mathematical education in African countries.
It was pointed out that the Russian side, for its part, is ready to
present definite proposals on how to implement such efforts in practice.
Medvedev and Harper also discussed matters concerning interaction on
some international problems of current concern.

.Male body found in Moscow's east with 20 knife wounds.

MOSCOW, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - An atrocious murder has been committed
in Moscow's east: criminals inflicted about 20 knife wounds on a man, a
source in the city's law enforcement agencies has told Itar-Tass.
The source pointed out that the crime had been committed on Tuesday
night near House 137 on Bolshaya Kosinskaya Ulitsa. "A male body was found
there with about 20 knife wounds, experts say. Efforts are being made to
identify the murder victim. He looks about 20-25 years of age," the source
said.
The scene of the crime is cordoned off by police. An operational
investigative group, consisting of members of personnel of the city's
Criminal Investigation Department and the SKP (Investigating Committee to
the Prosecutor's Office) Investigation Directorate, is currently at work
there.
.Soyuz manned spaceship blasts off from Baikonur (adds).
(Adds details of crew's forthcoming work in orbit)
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, June 16 (Itar-Tass) - A Russian manned spaceship
Soyuz with a Russo-American crew on board blasted off from the Baikonur
cosmodrome at 01:35, Moscow time, on Wednesday, an Itar-Tass correspondent
reported from the scene of the event. This is a jubilee flight -- a 100th
one -- under the International Space Station (ISS) programme.
The Soyuz TMA-19 is to deliver the ISS-24/25 crew -- Russian cosmonaut
Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Douglas Willock and Shannon Walker
-- to orbit for them to work there for about five months. The Soyuz
spaceship is to dock with the ISS at 03:10, Moscow time, on June 18, said
an official at Roscosmos (Federal Space Agency).
The ISS-24/25 crew, who will join Russian cosmonauts Alexander
Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and American astronaut Tracy
Caldwell-Dyson who have been working on board the ISS since the beginning
of April, are to accomplish a lot of no easy tasks.
The programme for the long-duration expedition provides for reception
and unloading of three Russian resupply spacecraft Progress, joint work
with the crews of one or two US space shuttles, and five spacewalks in the
interest of the Russian and American segments . Besides, at the very
beginning of the expedition, the cosmonauts are to make a short transfer
flight aboard the Soyuz from one module of the ISS to another one.
The crew is also to implement a research programme, the Russian part
of which consists of 24 experiments, with some of them to be performed for
the first-ever time.
Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov and NASA Deputy Administrator William
Gerstenmaier watched the Soyuz launch.
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