* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, currently in India, said:
- Russia and India will jointly develop a project to build a fifth-generation fighter jet
- Russia and India will sign an agreement to jointly develop and produce a multi-role, medium-haul transport airplane
- Russia and India will sign an agreement enabling the latter to manufacture RD-33 engines under a Russian license
- Russia has a good chance of winning a tender to supply jet fighters to the Indian Air Force by offering its MiG-35
- Russia is ready to build four new reactor units at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in India
- Russia's global navigation satellite system Glonass will cover all of the country's territory by the end of the year
* Russia is urging measures to prevent Lebanon from being drawn into internal confrontation and discord, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said
* The Russian ambassador to Georgia, who was recalled in September 2006 amid a furious diplomatic row between the ex-Soviet neighbors, returned to Tbilisi to resume his post, a Russian Embassy officer in Georgia said
* Belarus will demand that Russia pay rent for land under pipelines that it uses to pump oil and natural gas to Europe, President Alexander Lukashenko said at a government meeting
* Wrigley, the world's largest chewing-gum manufacturer, said it had signed an agreement to purchase an 80% stake in Russian chocolate maker A. Korkunov
* Russian arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport confirmed it had completed the delivery of Tor-M1 antiaircraft missile systems to Iran under a contract
* Russia will not supply armaments to Palestine, a Russian Defense Ministry top official said
* Russia's Foreign Ministry dismissed media reports citing a Western journalist as saying that prosecutors investigating the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya had opened an inquiry into possible Chechen police involvement
* Russia and Ukraine have set up a joint venture to resume production of An-124-100 Ruslan heavy cargo planes, which was halted in the early 1990s, the head of the Volga-Dnepr aircraft manufacturing consortium said
* A Cypriot dry cargo ship that ran ashore near Latvia's northwest port of Ventspils has been damaged; its fuel is leaking into the Baltic Sea and has already killed tens of birds on the coast
