* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said:
- Unilateral actions by the United States against countries cooperating with Iran are beyond the agreements of the Iran Six and will complicate its work
- The Iran Six has a chance to agree on measures preventing the transfer of dual-use technologies to Iran
- Extra measures against Iran must be gradual, and proportional to the real threat to nuclear non-proliferation
- It would be a mistake to believe the release of four Russian servicemen charged with spying in Georgia would resolve all problems in bilateral relations
* Russia's Audit Chamber said:
- The country will receive no more than 10% of hydrocarbon output under the Shell-led Sakhalin II project off Russia's Pacific coast given the way the project has been implemented in 2005 and 2006
- Russia can receive no more than 15% of hydrocarbon output in the Sakhalin I energy project given the way the project has been implemented since 1997
* Moscow police said they had closed a number of large restaurants and the fourth casino allegedly owned by Georgian mafia in the city against the backdrop of tensions between Russia and Georgia over alleged spying by Russian military officers stationed in the South Caucasus nation
* A second plane carrying 180 Georgians deported from Russia arrived in Tbilisi, the airport's press service said
* Techsnabexport, Russia's state-controlled uranium supplier and provider of uranium enrichment services, and Japan's Mitsui & Co are starting a joint project to develop a uranium ore field in Russia, the Russian company said
* Russia's top steel maker, Severstal, plans to list its global depositary receipts (GDR) and ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange, the company said
* Russia's nuclear industry authorities and SUAL aluminum producer signed a protocol on constructing a nuclear power plant and an aluminum plant in the northern Murmansk Region
* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reshuffled the law enforcement sector's executive posts, appointing among others a new acting interior minister, and dismissed Miroslav Niyazov, the Central Asian state's security chief, the president's press service said
* President Vladimir Putin introduced in parliament a draft law proposing a new set of regulations for the gaming industry
* Ukraine is ready to provide a detachment of military experts to participate in the international anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko returned the 2007 draft budget to the government and threatened to veto it if his recommendations were not followed, the presidential press service said
* A fire broke out in a building owned by Caucasus natives in the northern Russian city of Kondopoga, a town that last month was the scene of violent confrontations between locals and Caucasus natives, the Emergency Situations Ministry said
* A military court in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk sentenced a sergeant to six years in prison for beating a private to death, the court said
* U.S. Undersecretary of State Richard Boucher has arrived in Tajikistan on a two-day working visit to meet with the Tajik president and foreign minister ahead of the November 6 presidential elections in the Central Asian republic, a U.S. Dushanbe Embassy spokesman said
* The Moscow Arbitration Court postponed Friday until November 17 hearings on a motion by the bankrupt company Yukos to declare the sale of its former core production unit, Yuganskneftegaz, invalid, and to pay out $14.5 billion in losses
