* The Georgian ambassador to Russia was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry after Georgian law enforcement agencies detained a Russian military observer in Georgia on suspicion of terrorism
* Participants in an unsanctioned protest rally in the capital of Kyrgyzstan said it would go on until Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov resigned
* Russian Railways, a railroad transportation giant, invited North and South Koreas to consider establishing an international consortium on a Trans-Korean railroad project
* The Russian ambassador to Argentina said Russian-Argentine trade turnover had more than doubled in the nine months of 2005 to reach $615 million
* Chechnya's election commission registered 356 candidates who will run in the parliamentary election, scheduled for November 27
* Georgia's former Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said she was going to form her own political movement
