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1. Headlines: Belarusian authorities are looking into the Minsk blast that occurred on 11 April; President Medvedev arrives at Mission Control Centre for a live linkup with the ISS; another quake occurs in Japan; former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovskiy compares Russian Prime Minister Putin to Stalin; famous Moscow-based theatre in under threat of evacuation.
9. Former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovskiy compared Prime Minister Putin to Soviet dictator Iosif Stalin in his interview to Germany's Die Welt. Aleksey Solomin reviews the article.
10. Moscow's Tverskoy court has upheld a motion from the Russian Interior Ministry's investigations committee to suspend the president of the Bank of Moscow, Andrey Borodin, and his deputy Dmitriy Akulinin. Inessa Zemler reports.
