Main news of October 20

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the opinion of many of his countrymen that NATO was hostile to Russia was "in many respects a mistake"

* Russia handed to Polish investigators a detailed technical report on the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others near Smolensk in April

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has called on the country's lawmakers to ignore Russian "media pressure"

* International mediators are preparing to resume six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said

RUSSIA

* Presidential nominee for Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin vowed to reduce unemployment among Muscovites

* Two militants were killed in a special operation in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the head of the republic of Chechnya said

* Over 6,000 people were affected by last weekend's flooding in Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory, regional Governor Alexander Tkachyov said

BUSINESS

* Three Russian mobile telecommunications companies will slash prices on some voice and data services after the government accused them of breaking antimonopoly rules, the government said

* Russia's Customs Service has refunded Russian-British venture company TNK-BP 6.17 billion rubles in overpaid customs duties in an out-of-court deal with the oil major, customs chief Andrei Belyaninov said

SOCIETY

* Russia's Communist Party has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to reopen a probe into the 1940 massacre of Polish officers, the newsru.com website reported

* The Russian ombudsman for children's rights has sent an aide to the central Vladimir Region to investigate reports of child abuse in the St. Bogolyubovsky Convent