* The IAEA supports Russia's proposal to set up an international uranium enrichment center, Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, said
* A chance to resolve the Middle East crisis still exists, and should not be wasted, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
* Russian diplomats are following developments in Thailand, which was hit by a military coup, and making every effort to ensure the safety of Russian tourists in the country, the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman said
* Russian oil company Yukos lost another legal battle Tuesday when a Moscow arbitration court of appeal upheld an August 1 court ruling declaring it bankrupt
* The Russian Trading System, the country's main stock exchange, and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) said they would suspend trading in shares of bankrupt oil company Yukos as of September 20
* Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said:
- Russia's government cannot support all the proposals made by foreign investors on the increasing expenses of the Sakhalin II energy project
- Russia may stop using production-sharing agreements for mineral deposits, but will honor contracts being implemented
- All remaining issues on the opening of the Chinese carmaker Great Wall's assembly plant in Russia will be resolved by November
* Sergei Lavrov and Borys Tarasyuk, the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine, agreed to meet in Kiev on November 7 or 8 to discuss key problems in bilateral relations
* Oleg Mitvol, the deputy head of Russia's environmental watchdog, criticized the operator of the massive Sakhalin II energy project in the country's Far East, saying it had not been given a license to wreck the local ecology
* The Central Bank of Russia said it could significantly cut refinancing rates if 2006 inflation was not more than 9%
* The docking of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-9 with the International Space Station will not be cancelled, despite a delay in the landing of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said
* Russia's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Yury Fedotov said little progress had been made in negotiations to ease visa regulations between the two countries
* The trial of Valery Yarantsev, a Russian trawler captain charged with violating fishing regulations and holding two Norwegian border guards illegally in an international incident last year, resumed in Murmansk
* Georgia's Defense Ministry voiced its approval for Russia's decision to complete an ahead-of-schedule withdrawal of its two Soviet-era military bases in the Caucasus country, as a train carrying the last batch of hardware from one of the bases left Georgia
* Ukraine's parliament endorsed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's go-slow position on NATO membership.
