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The Russian government has agreed to stabilize prices with associations representing food producers, the agriculture minister said on Monday. 
The UN Security Council unanimously approved an extension of the mandate for its observer mission in Georgia on Monday by another six months, until April 15, 2008.
A declaration expected to be signed at the Caspian summit in Tehran on October 16 will act as a guideline until the approval of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Russia said on Monday. 
Nuclear deterrence as a key to international stability is becoming irrelevant, but Russia cannot afford to abandon it just yet, the director of a Russian think tank said Monday. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Monday that he planned to pay a two-day official visit to Iran despite an alleged assassination plot against him. 
Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently involved in talks with German leader Angela Merkel, confirmed on Monday his country's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline on time.

The Moscow division of Russia's elite security force, the OMON, have carried out training exercises ahead of the visit by 5,000 English soccer fans to Moscow on October 17. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it wants U.S. plans to deploy components of its global missile defense system in Europe to be tabled for Russia-NATO Council discussions. 
Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, currently involved in talks with German leader Angela Merkel, confirmed on Monday his country's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline on time. 
The talks between Russian and Iranian experts on the Bushehr NPP construction, in south Iran, are at the final stage, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Monday. 
Iran will join a Russian-proposed joint naval task force in the Caspian region only after the legal status of the Caspian Sea has been determined, an Iranian analyst said on Monday. 
President Vladimir Putin pledged on Monday the continuity of relations with Europe after parliamentary and presidential polls in Russia. 
Poland could block Russia's entry to the global trade organization if Moscow fails to lift the 2005 embargo on imports of agricultural products, a deputy agriculture minister said on Monday. 



