Main news of October 23

A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

* The leader of the Kyrgyz opposition party Ata-Zhurt, which won the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, has accused the secret services of being behind an attack on him, an allegation denied by the State National Security Service.

* Around 1,500 dead birds have been found on Ukraine's Bolshoi Dzendzik Island near the Berdyansk spit on the Azov Sea, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said.

RUSSIA

* One policeman was killed and two injured in an apparent suicide bombing in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, while some reports said as many as 10 people were injured.

* Russia's lower house of parliament has adopted changes to the law on protests and rallies in a move that many activists say is another step towards restricting freedom of assembly, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported.

BUSINESS

* The Russian government may move from merely monitoring the financial actions of state-owned companies to regulating and controlling their large-scale borrowing and investments, officials said.

* The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed to increase the share of developing countries in the capital of the International Monetary Fund by 2.8 percent to 42.29 percent.

SPORTS

* Moscow Region side Saturn won 1-0 and surprise successes Spartak Nalchik kept up their challenge for a European place with a 2-1 win on a low-scoring day in Russian Premier League.

* Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki and Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis won their Kremlin Cup semifinals and will face off for the title.

* Russian Maria Kirilenko beat her compatriot Vera Dushevina in the Kremlin Cup semifinals to set up a final against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.