* President Vladimir Putin said the killing of Basayev was a "just retribution" for the 2004 bloody Beslan school siege and other terrorist attacks
* A local police source said Russia's Basayev was killed in a car accompanying a truck with explosives for a major terrorist attack plotted in the republic of Ingushetia
* The body of Shamil Basayev, announced dead by the country's security chief Monday, will undergo a DNA analysis to prove his identity, said a source with the security services in southern Russia
* Russia's Federal Security Service said 12 militants had been killed in the southern republic of Ingushetia during a security operation last night, and that four of the bodies, including terrorist leader Shamil Basayev, had been identified
* Russia's S7 airline said it would pay 50,000 rubles ($1,860) to the relatives of passengers killed in an Airbus crash in Siberia Sunday
* Twenty victims of Sunday's air crash in Siberia that claimed at least 124 lives remain in a serious condition, said the Russian health minister
* Law enforcement agencies said a policeman had been wounded in downtown Moscow while trying to prevent a robbery
* Ukraine's West-leaning "orange" coalition was formally dissolved following the Socialist Party's defection to a pro-Russian camp, the Ukrainian parliament's press service said
* Net foreign investment in the Russian economy totaled $11 billion in the first half of 2006 and direct foreign investment amounted to $14.1 billion, said Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref
* Three people were injured as a plane carrying Russian Navy Commander Vladimir Masorin caught fire during takeoff from an airport in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, said the commander's aide, Igor Dygalo
* Following an Airbus crash at Siberia's Irkutsk airport on Sunday:
- Russia's Transportation Minister Igor Levitin said rescue workers had recovered 124 bodies
- France's Air Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) said it would help Russia investigate the crash
- A Russian Tu-154 airliner made a safe emergency landing at the airport after reporting engine trouble
* Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of Ukraine's "orange" coalition, said her party would go into radical opposition against a new coalition majority formed in the country's parliament by three leftist parties
* Russia expects the Iraqi government to take urgent measures to bring to justice the murderers of five Russian diplomats killed in Baghdad in June, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
* U.S. automaker General Motors said it had increased sales in Russia 47.7% in the first six months of 2006 year-on-year to 52,699 vehicles
* Lawyers for 39 activists of an extremist party facing prison terms for inciting public unrest in Russia said they had filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights
