* Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov:
- instructed ministries to draft normative legal acts to implement President Vladimir Putin's Thursday migration directive
- called for measures to optimize management of the country's agro-industrial complex and develop agricultural machine-manufacturing.
* Belarus is ready to get involved in building a nuclear storage facility in Lithuania, but is opposed to its location near the country's border, President Alexander Lukashenko said
* Aeroflot said it will restart regular passenger flights from Moscow to Beirut from October 8 after grounding planes for two months because of the conflict between Israel and Hizbollah fighters
* The Belarusian president said his country would not be hurt if the European Union imposed trade sanctions against it
