.Duma to examine auto tech inspection bill in second reading.

.ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for Tue, Jun 14 - 1.


MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - The long-awaited second reading of the
motor vehicle technical inspection bill is to be held in the State Duma
lower house of the Russian parliament here on Tuesday.
The bill has been actually rewritten anew as compared with the
previous wording. It seriously changes the current vehicle technical
inspection procedure, the shortcomings of which were many times pointed
out earlier this year by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who demanded
that the procedure be streamlined to the utmost.

.Medvedev arrives in Tashkent for working visit.

MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
arrived in Tashkent on Tuesday for a working visit.
Presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told journalists on the eve of the
trip, "It is expected that prospects for stepping up bilateral
trade-and-economic interaction, including that in the fuel-and-energy
sector, will be discussed during (upcoming) talks with Uzbekistan's
President Islam Karimov." However, Prikhodko declined to specify which
particular projects were meant.

.CCRF to probe constitutionality of Procedure Code provisions.

ST PETERSBURG, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Constitutional Court of the
Russian Federation holds a public session here on Tuesday to probe the
constitutionality of a number of provisions of the RF Criminal Procedure
Code, which make it possible to terminate the investigation of criminal
cases in view of the death of suspects.

.RME sends yet another plane to Yemen for Russian nationals.

MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry for Emergencies
(RME) has sent yet another plane to Yemen to collect Russian nationals who
opted to leave that countrty, anofficial at the RME information department
has told Itar-Tass.
"An RME IL-62 plane took off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport at
midnight, heading for the Yemeni city of Aden," the RME official said.
Earlier, on June 13, two planes of the RME -- an IL-76 and IL-62 --
brought 175 citizens of Russia and nationals of other CIS countries to
Moscow.

.RF govt presidium to consider measures to reduce jobless rate.

MOSCOW, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Government Presidium on
Tuesday will consider measures to reduce unemployment, to implement
Federal purpose-oriented investment programmes in the first quarter of
2011, and Russia's participation in financing the Fund for the
capitalization of Russian banks.
Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Health and Social Development, will be
the rapporteur on the agenda item concerning efforts to ease strain on
the labour market, a government press service official said.
The implementation of additional measures under regional programmes
aimed at reducing unemployment in 2009-2010 resulted in averting an
uncontrolled increase in unemployment rate, forecast in most regions (The
number of jobless registered by the agencies of employment services
decreased from 2.3 million as of the beginning of 2010 to 1.6 million as
of January 2011; the registered unemployment rate diminished from 2.8
percent to 2.1 percent of the economically active population), and in
checking the dismissal of about 2.8 million workers, thereby easing
tension on the labour market and maintaining social stability in society.
In 2011, the implementation of regional programmes will be continued.
Provision has been made in the Federal budget for the allocation of 27,800
million roubles for these purposes.

.Five-point earthquake occurs off Honshu eastern coast

VLADIVOSTOK, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - An earthquake with a magnitude of
5.2 occurred off the eastern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu on the
night from Monday to Tuesday. The focus of the earth jolt was at a depth
of 33 km, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences
reported.
The epicenter of the quake was in the Pacific Ocean, 135 km south-east
of the city of Iwaki. There has been no information about the aftermath of
the temblor.