All of Cypriot banks' foreign branches eventually will be sold, Cypriot Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said March 30, Voice of Russia reported March 31.

Russia's LUKoil, China's China National Petroleum Corp. and Uzbekistan's Uzbekneftegaz will jointly develop natural gas condensate fields in Uzbekistan, an unnamed Uzbekneftegaz source said March 29, Trend.az reported March 31.

Russia expects "maximum responsibility and restraint" from all sides in dealing with North Korea's latest threat to attack the United States, Grigory Logvinov, Russia's deputy envoy to the six-party talks, said March 30, AFP reported.

Police arrested 13 activists who had planned to stage a rally in central Moscow on March 30, AFP reported.

Russia will judge the security situation on the Korean peninsula by concrete steps that are taken there, not by belligerent statements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said March 29, Vesti.ru reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have discussed possible deliveries of Russian natural gas to Egypt, RIA Novosti reported March 28.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is considering a petition, brought by the United States Federation of Labor, on the issue of stripping Georgia of preferential permissions to export goods to the United States at zero rate, Trend reported March 28.

Polish company Lubava and the Armenian Defense Ministry's Charentsavan Machine-Building Plant signed an agreement to establish an Armenian-Polish joint venture, Mediamax reported March 27.