Main news of August 28

RUSSIA

* The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has charged four of 10 suspects currently in custody accused of last year's murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a defense lawyer said

* Moscow's Tverskoi Court issued an arrest warrant for former head of RussNeft oil company Mikhail Gutseriyev, a spokesman for the Moscow City Court said

* Nikolai Spassky, deputy head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power, said a deal is likely to be signed with the United States this fall on the civilian use of nuclear power

* Russia and the U.S. should extend the START-I Treaty, which expires in 2009, or else negative consequences will result, U.S. senator Richard Lugar said

* Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, died on Monday afternoon at a military hospital in Moscow at the age of 69, after a long illness

* The Russian space agency will implement a project over the next several years to monitor the Arctic region's climate using satellites, the agency's head, Anatoly Perminov, said

* Russian law enforcement and Interpol officials said they arrested a 45-year-old retired Israeli Army colonel wanted in Colombia for terrorism at Moscow's Domodedovo airport

WORLD

* Taliban militants have agreed to release all 19 South Korean hostages being held in Afghanistan, Seoul's Yonhap agency said, citing a spokesman for the South Korean president

* Abdullah Gul, Turkey's foreign minister and a candidate from the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development (AK) Party, was elected president in a third round of voting in parliament

* The Iranian file on the plutonium issue has been concluded and is closed, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a document posted on its official Web site

* Intense fires that have blazed for five days in southern Greece, killing at least 64 people, continued to consume forests, orchards and farmland across the Peloponnese peninsula

BUSINESS

* LUKoil, Russia's leading independent crude producer, said Tuesday it expected oil prices for consumers in Western and Central Europe, whose supplies have been reduced, to increase

* Kaspersky Lab, a leading Russian developer of antivirus software, intends to hold an initial public offering (IPO) in the spring of 2009 to raise at least $100 million, a company senior official said