* Russian combat engineers will fly to Lebanon at the end of September, and an advance group is ready to leave this week, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said
* A notary earlier acquitted of murdering Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov denied all charges in a fraud case against him in a Moscow court.
* Power has been cut off to a generating unit at a nuclear plant in Ukraine, the national energy company Energoatom said Monday.
* Russian and United States diplomats signed a protocol extending the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Natural and Man-Made Technological Emergency Prevention and Response
* Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said:
- There are no plans to privatize Gazprom or other infrastructure companies,
- Kamaz, Russia's leading truck maker, will conduct an initial public offering in Russia and abroad in early 2008
- Russia's Stabilization Fund will reach $224 billion and gold and foreign currency reserves will top $300 billion in 2009
* Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Space Agency, said:
- Russia and China may conclude a Moon exploration agreement by the end of the year
- A command and control center for Russia's Federal Space Agency could be established in the South African Republic
* Russia's grain harvest is expected to reach 73 million metric tons in the current agricultural year, Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev said
* More than 40 Russian companies are planning to conduct initial public offerings in 2006-2007, an investment expert said
* The crews of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station met soon after the spacecraft docked with the station, a NASA spokesman said
* Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of an eponymous opposition bloc in Ukraine's parliament, said she believes the price for natural gas is unfair to the country's population
* Russia is planning an expansion on the Asian-Pacific uranium market by 2010, Russian uranium trader Techsnabexport said
* Russia's gross domestic product rose 7.4% in the second quarter of 2006, year-on-year, to 6.3 trillion rubles ($240 bln), the nation's top statistics agency said
* Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev called on the Muslim world to unite its efforts against terrorism