RIAN News Service continues its review of the outgoing year with the main events of August

August 1

* A fire breaks out inside a Victor class nuclear submarine that was being dismantled at a plant in the city of Severodvinsk

August 4

* A Priz AS-28 mini-sub with seven sailors onboard becomes trapped in a fishing net at a depth of about 190 meters (about 620 feet) in the Berezovaya Bay in the Bering Sea

August 7

* Mikhail Yevdokimov, 48, governor of the eastern Russian region of Altai, is killed in a car crash

* The Priz AS-28 mini-sub is rescued after three days when an unmanned British deep-sea rescue vehicle, the Scorpio 45, cuts the cables and frees it

August 10

* Kazakhstan's Ministry of Agriculture officially announces that an outbreak of bird flu has been registered in the country.

August 12

* The Peace Shield 2005 international military exercises involving U.S., Georgian, and Azerbaijani troops end in the Crimea, Ukraine. The troops practiced anti-terrorist measures, including disarmament and elimination of imaginary terrorist units, during the final amphibian-coastal stage of the maneuvers

August 14

* President-elect Kurmanbek Bakiyev is inaugurated as the president of Kyrgyzstan

August 19

* Russia pays off the bulk of its $2.3-billion debt to the Paris Club of Creditor Nations to be paid ahead of schedule

August 22

* The head the Russian Federal Transport Supervision Service orders the suspension of all IL-96-300 planes from service in all airlines because of manufacturing defects and the manufacturer's failure to correct them

* Maria Sharapova becomes the first Russian to top the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings

August 29

* Swiss authorities agree to extradite a former Russian nuclear power minister, Yevgeny Adamov, arrested in Switzerland in May at U.S. request, to Russia, but said the decision would depend on the U.S. position