* Ukraine's new Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said he would pay an official visit to Moscow August 15-16
* Russia's Supreme Court rejected an appeal from prosecutors and the parents of Tajik girl Khursheda Sultonova killed in 2004 against the acquittal of a teenaged defendant charged with the attack
* The brother of a prosecutor was killed and 13 people were wounded in the third attack in two days on a legal officer in the North Caucasus
* President Vladimir Putin ordered the government to set up a commission by September 1 to conduct an inventory of all cultural treasures in the country's museums following thefts worth millions of dollars, including from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg
* British Airways cancelled flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to London after a major terrorist scare disrupted flights at Heathrow airport, but Russian airlines continued flying to London according to schedule
* A diplomatic scandal that rocked U.S.-Kyrgyz relations in mid-July over alleged U.S. interference in the Central Asian republic's affairs is over, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said
* Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said he intended to propose that parliament make training at reserve camps obligatory for all men under 40
* The Moscow district military court said lawyers acting for a Russian military intelligence colonel sentenced to 13 years in prison for spying for the United Kingdom had filed an appeal
* The Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power said the country had taken back dozens of kilograms of highly enriched spent uranium from a reactor built with Soviet assistance in Poland
* Russian discount retailer Pyaterochka Holding N.V. said it had started to buy out its $50-mln Global Depositary Receipts under a management stock option plan
* Russia's state-owned flagship air carrier Aeroflot posted a 10.9-fold quarter-on-quarter net profit increase, according to Russian Accounting Standards, to $162 million in April-June 2006
