* Russia's Foreign Ministry:
- said the Iranian foreign minister's working visit to Moscow, previously scheduled for November 9-10, has been postponed
- confirmed that North Korea's First Deputy Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju is currently in Moscow on a private visit
* Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will hold talks on the country's nuclear problem in Moscow on November 10, Iranian news agency ISNA said
* Reports of a possible delay in launching the first reactor Russia is building for Iran's nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr are unfounded, Russian nuclear equipment export monopoly Atomstroiexport said
* Russian President Vladimir Putin said the potential for conflict in the world is growing, while the threat and use of force is being played up in international relations
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russian and Ukrainian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yushchenko will meet in Kiev soon
* Russia's bankrupt Yukos Oil Company has increased its share of Rosneft's common stock to 9.44%, the state-run company said
* Russia is considering mining uranium in Bulgaria after its nuclear services exporter won a tender to build a power plant outside Sofia, said Pyotr Lavrenyuk, vice president of Russia's nuclear fuel producer and supplier TVEL
* Russia has successfully conducted test flights of a modernized MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor equipped with improved engines and electronics, a defense company said
* Russian can complete all bilateral talks on its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2006, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said
* Russia has made little progress in moving toward corporate transparency in 2006, international rating agency Standard and Poor's said in an annual study
* Seven Russian police officers have been killed and one wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen on the officers' minivan in Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, a top regional commander said.
