* No Russians were on board a helicopter that crashed in Turkey, Russia's consul general said
* A Tajik woman was found unconscious with brain damage in a park in Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg following a violent attack, law-enforcement agencies said
* Moscow's police chief said three suspects arrested in connection with a bloody bomb attack on a Moscow market last week could have carried out eight other bomb attacks
* A lawyer acting for Boris Berezovsky said Russian prosecutors had extended an investigation into the fugitive tycoon's alleged coup case until December 16
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said:
- U.S. plans to deploy missile defense systems in eastern Europe should be transparent
- Russia has some doubts about U.S. plans to use intercontinental ballistic missiles with conventional warheads in preventive strikes against terrorists, and is not ready to join them
- Moscow and Washington are considering signing agreements on cooperation in the sphere of defense technologies and information exchange in space research
* No criminal case will be opened against Russian border guards who detained a Japanese vessel in a fatal incident almost two weeks ago, the chief military prosecutor's office said
* The governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, which borders on China, said Chinese authorities were yet to give Russia permission to take samples from the Songhua River after a spill of toxic waste from a local plant last week
* The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against an eight-year prison sentence for ex-Menatep Group head Platon Lebedev
* The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said the State Duma would consider the government's draft 2007 budget and over 50 other bills as priorities
* The export duty on Russian oil may total $238-239 per metric ton starting from October 1, a top customs official said
* Russian state-controlled oil company Rosneft said its top executives had acquired a 0.0179% of the company's shares in the course of an IPO
* Estonia's parliament failed to elect a new president in the first round of voting
* Japan and Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of intent on nuclear cooperation, as well as a joint statement on friendship, partnership and cooperation
* Shareholders of Sistema-Gals, an AFK Sistema arm dealing with real estate, decided to increase the company's authorized capital through an additional issue of shares
* Federal Security Service said 160 kilograms (350lb) of heroin from Afghanistan had been seized in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg
* Russia's Finance Ministry said the debt of foreign countries on loans granted by the former Soviet Union and then Russia totaled more than $68.9 billion as of January 1, 2006
* Madonna's concert will be held at a stadium in southwest Moscow on September 12, the organizers said, correcting earlier reports that the much-awaited event would take place September 11
