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18:01 GMT 23.08.2007

RUSSIA

* Russia's resumption of long-distance strategic bomber patrol flights, suspended after the collapse of the Soviet Union, does not imply a return to the Cold War, First Deputy Prime Miniser Sergei Ivanov said

* Russia will not export advanced S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) antiaircraft missiles in the foreseeable future, a source in the military-industrial complex said

* Russia's Air Force suspended all Su-24 strike aircraft flights following a crash in the country's Far East early Thursday, an Air Force spokesman said

* Two servicemen were killed and at least seven wounded when a military convoy came under fire in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan, the local Interior Ministry said

* Russia will not lift restrictions on meat imports from Britain, imposed over an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in southeast England in early August, before November, the veterinary watchdog said

* The deadline by which alcohol producers and sellers will have to submit data to an automated national system has been postponed from November 1 until further notice, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said

* A member of Moscow's reformist clergy said he plans to open a church for the gay community in the capital and secured the support of churches in Europe and the U.S., a Russian paper said

WORLD

* South Korea will start shipping food and medical supplies to Pyongyang Thursday as part of a $7.5-million humanitarian aid package following devastating flooding in North Korea, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said

* The authors of anti-Iranian resolutions in the United Nations Security Council will only harm themselves in the end, not Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned

* At least five militants of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas were wounded in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza, local medical staff said

* The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland postponed a Zurich court's ruling on the early release of a Russian who killed a Skyguide air traffic controller, Peter Nielsen

* NATO is prepared to provide a number of its partners, including Georgia, access to its radar air data exchange system, a deputy NATO spokesman said

* Over 6,000 Russian fans are expected to attend the Russia-England soccer match in the Euro-2008 qualifying group round September 12 in London, an official with the British General Consulate in St. Petersburg said

BUSINESS

* A Russian Finance Ministry source said the country had repaid its debt to Portugal ahead of schedule

* Atlant-Soyuz, the official air carrier of Moscow's government, signed a contract at the MAKS-2007 air show to buy four Boeing 737-700 airliners worth a total of $249 million at list prices

* The Ilyushin aircraft maker said it has signed a memorandum of intention to deliver 96 Il-family aircraft to the national airlines Open Sky and Continent for $1 billion

* Russia's market regulator said it refused to register an additional placement of shares planned by Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, citing non-compliance with laws on joint-stock companies