* Russian prosecutors launch a new attack on former Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his defense team
* President Vladimir Putin lashes out at corruption of power bodies and inefficiency of law enforcement agencies in southern Russia
* News of Hurricane Rita losing strength sends the dollar on Russian market
* Forty-three people injured in a club blast in a Belarusian city
* Russia invites China to develop competitor plane to Boeing and Airbus
* Tycoon Roman Abramovich agrees to another term as governor of Russia's far eastern Chukotka region
