Main news of November 19

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* NATO does not represent any threat for Russia, according to the alliance's new strategic conception accepted in Lisbon by the 28 NATO members

* The heads of 28 NATO member states are meeting in Lisbon for the first plenary session

* The Ukraine Constitutional Court approved the holding of parliamentary elections in 2012

RUSSIA

* A Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor/fighter crashed in the Perm region of the Urals, but the pilots ejected safely

* The North Caucasus Federal District remains unstable in terms of security and the situation in the region continues to be complicated, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* Six suspects confessed to the brutal mass murder of 12 people in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, Governor Alexander Tkachev said

* The testing of the flight management system (FMS) for Russia's Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger airliner was completed

* Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin took issue with the city labor and employment department for submitting a request to invite more than a thousand Chinese nationals to work in the Russian capital

BUSINESS

* Russia will discuss natural gas prices with Belarus though they are already at a minimum, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Russia's energy giant Gazprom has not made any concessions on the price of natural gas to European consumers, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* Turkmenistan is building an infrastructure that would enable it to supply up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe

* Russia's Finance Ministry is proposing a gradual increase in property tax within the next five years, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said

DEFENSE

* Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is seeking to become an independent exporter of vessels, naval arms and equipment