Main news of October 7

WORLD

* Ukraine's state-controlled energy company Naftogaz said it had paid Russia in full for natural gas consumed in September.

* Mediators and observers in the conflict over Moldova's breakaway region of Transdnestr have urged the parties to the conflict to resume talks to find a just and long-term solution, the OSCE said

* Georgia has resumed transit of Russian natural gas to Armenia after a break for pipeline repairs, a spokesman for the Armenian gas pipeline operator ArmRosgazprom said

* German police officers detained in Berlin on Wednesday three people suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Russia, the local prosecutor general's office said

* NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged Russia to provide assistance in training and equipping the Afghan Army

* Two pilots were killed when a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 Flogger fighter crashed in Tripoli during a demonstration flight, a Libyan Defense Ministry spokesman said

* New Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would make the fight against corruption a priority

* New U.S. missile shield plans present no risks for Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Abkhazia will hold presidential elections on December 12, the former Georgian republic's parliament decided

* Turkey is ready to sign a pact on October 10 on reopening its border with Armenia and reestablishing relations, if Armenia does not insist on last-minute changes to the draft, the Turkish prime minister told The Wall Street Journal

* Finland, which earlier raised environmental concerns over the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea, is set to give its approval to the project, a Belgian radio station reported

* Gazprom confirmed that Ukraine had paid for Russian natural gas deliveries to the country for September

RUSSIA

* Russia's emergencies ministry has put farms in Russia's southern Rostov Region under quarantine following confirmation of an outbreak of swine fever, the ministry said in a statement

* A rally was held in central Moscow in memory of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead by an unknown killer three years ago

* Russian Airborne Troops commander Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov has received an official warning following a probe into his involvement in illegal activities, the Defense Ministry said

* Russia's hydropower company RusHydro announced it had completed the cleanup of debris at a Siberian hydropower plant severely damaged during a recent accident

* Russia's prime minister highlighted the declining interest in reading and inadequate book supplies to the provinces as key problems facing national literature at a meeting with writers

* Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Russia has five ongoing contracts with Libya in the sphere of military cooperation

* Hydropower company RusHydro will raise loans worth 7 billion rubles ($230 million) in 2010 to restore a Siberian hydropower plant severely damaged during a recent accident, the company's acting CEO said

* A lawyer acting for the family of the late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya denied reports that new suspects have emerged in the 2006 murder case

* Russia has reached an agreement with Turkmenistan on resuming natural gas supplies from the Central Asian country, the press secretary of the Russian president said