* Georgia's interior minister said a plot to bomb the central office of the country's ruling party had been thwarted last night
* Abkhazia's foreign minister and Georgia's state minister for conflict resolution agreed at a meeting in the UN mission headquarters in Sukhumi to resume talks
* The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) said its honorary president and founder Arkady Volsky had died after a long illness at the age of 74
* The speaker of the lower house of Russia's parliament said the parliamentary majority believed the 2007 budget should prioritize long-term projects in the social sphere
* The leader of the Party of Pensioners said the founding congress of a new party formed by merging three of Russia's smaller political parties would be held no later than November 1
* Russia's Foreign Ministry said it was seriously concerned about the escalating tension in the zone of the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict and called on the sides to display maximum restraint
* The Tbilisi City Court ruled that a Georgian opposition leader be set free on a $5,500 bail
