* Russia has concluded negotiations with Argentina on accession to the World Trade Organization
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Ukraine might join the World Trade Organization in December
* NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in Kiev
* Russian diplomats in Madrid said five men detained by Spanish police last week aboard a vessel carrying more than three metric tons of cocaine were Russians
* World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz arrived in Moscow on a two-day official visit
* Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said proposals to set up a Russian oil stock exchange would be ready by November
* The Finance Ministry said foreign companies would be allowed to develop the country's natural resource deposits but with some restrictions
* Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced that his deputy, Alexander Ryazanov, would become the new president of oil major Sibneft
* A senior official in the Russian Tax Service and an employee of the Central Bank were caught taking a $1 million bribe
* The Russian border department said the Russian trawler detained by the Norwegian Coast Guard would be convoyed to Murmansk
* Russia and Brazil signed a contract to send a Brazilian astronaut to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft
