* Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attended the opening of a representative office of Vneshtorgbank, Russia's state-run foreign trade bank, in Angola
* The Ukrainian defense minister said his country was planning to send a peacekeeping contingent to the conflict zone in Lebanon
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that his country had a legitimate right to possess full nuclear cycle
* Russia's Prosecutor General's office said it had been re-admitted into the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP)
* Moscow, the capital of Russia, celebrated its 859th anniversary
* Police seized more than nine kilograms of gold nuggets, worth about 3 million rubles ($112,000), from a local resident in Yakutia in eastern Siberia
* Police found a large weapons cache containing 200 kg (440 lbs) of explosives in the suburbs of the Chechen capital, Grozny
