Main news of September 1

* The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has received the nominations for the position of IMF managing director, and will now begin the formal selection process

* Russia takes a positive view of a report by the UN nuclear watchdog's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, on the Iranian nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said

* Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct more tests of new warheads for its intercontinental ballistic missiles later this year, the SMF commander said

* About half a million Russian nationals may vote in the upcoming State Duma election, due on December 2, the head of the Central Electoral Commission said

* Georgia completed the rotation of its contingent as part of a joint peacekeeping force in South Ossetia

* The massive explosion in Nazran, the largest city in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, could have been designed to destabilize the situation there, the republic's prosecutor said