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Morning re-cap of main news, September 5

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* A Russian guide and three Poles were killed and 30 Russian tourists wounded in a road accident in France, the Russian Embassy in Paris said

* Russian President Vladimir Putin and his South African counterpart, Thabo Mbeki, signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation

* Vladimir Putin, on his first visit to South Africa, said:

- Russia will supply South Africa with nuclear fuel until 2010

- One Russian company intends to invest more than $1 billion in South Africa's economy

- Russia has great plans for developing relations with South Africa

* Russia will launch a South African micro-satellite this December, President Thabo Mbeki said

* Russia's Defense Ministry said a joint Russian-U.S. exercise, called Torgau-2006 and scheduled for late September, cannot be held, as the issue of foreign servicemen's presence in the country was unresolved

* Moscow is considering extending financial aid to Lebanon after an Israeli military operation left much of the country's southern regions in ruins, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* Russian Presidential aide Igor Shuvalov said:

- Natural gas prices for Ukraine will gradually increase

- Russia's energy giant Gazprom will select partner companies to develop the giant Shtokman gas deposit off Russia's Arctic coast only for reasons of optimum cost-benefit

- Russia will supply natural gas on foreign contracts in full

- A merger between Novoship, Russia's second-largest shipping company, and the sector leader Sovcomflot, would be viable, but Russian officials involved are hampering the deal

- The Sakhalin II project in Russia's Far East is one of the country's top priority energy projects and he sees no grounds for heightening tensions in an ecological dispute around the project

* Russia's environmental protection agency said it was taking legal action to overturn the conclusions of a state ecological probe into the Sakhalin II energy project off the country's Pacific coast

* Kazakhstan's leader Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit the United States in late September, the presidential administration said

* Yulia Tymoshenko, a charismatic former prime minister of Ukraine, has started the new parliamentary year with a typically robust statement on her intention to form a genuine opposition to the government

* Gazprom said it agreed to a price increase of more than 50% - to $100 per 1,000 cubic meters - for natural gas from the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan in 2007-2009

* LUKoil earmarked over $100 billion for its investment program until 2016, including more than $35 billion for refining and sales, Vladimir Nekrasov, the Russian independent crude producer's first vice-president said

* Russia's government has approved a pilot project to sell up to 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas through an electronic trading floor at unregulated prices in 2006-07, the government press service said

* Russian prosecutors and officials with the Transportation Ministry said they discovered many violations of safety regulations in the work of air carriers and serious drawbacks in the activities of regulatory bodies

* LG Electronics, a South Korean producer of electronics and mobile phones, opened a plant in the Moscow Region

* Russia's natural gas exports expanded 24.9%, year-on-year, in January-July 2006, to 126.35 billion cubic meters, Gazexport, the export arm of energy giant Gazprom said

* Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov warned that the capital could face an energy deficit of 20% this winter, sparking concerns that temporary business closures seen in January could be repeated

* A record low atmospheric pressure of 727.7 mm of mercury was registered in the Russian capital, a Moscow meteorologist said

* Russia will present a naval version of the MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter at an international air show in southern Russia that opens Wednesday

* Four people have been hospitalized in southwestern Kyrgyzstan after being diagnosed with anthrax, the Central Asian republic's emergencies services reported

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