* The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said:
- Russia's oil production rose 2.4% year-on-year in January-August 2006 to 318 million metric tons (2.34 billion bbl)
- Inflation will be between 0.1% and 0.3% in September
* Rosenergoatom, Russia's state-run nuclear power generating monopoly, will be transformed into a joint-stock company in the first half of 2007, the company's deputy general director said
* The first Russian trials of a human vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus were successful, a Russian research institute member said
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said the country could create an economy as strong as that of the United States or Germany in 10 years
* Bankrupt Russian oil company Yukos and an investor offering to take on its debt have taken a "time-out" to consider the potential deal, the company's board chairman said
* Gholamreza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, highlighted the importance of relations with Russia at a meeting in Moscow with Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko
* Russia's car production in the first eight months of 2006 increased 9.3% year-on-year to 748,000 vehicles, the Industry and Energy Ministry said
* The 13th crew at the International Space Station is completing repairs to the Russian oxygen regeneration system on the orbital station, and is planning to turn it on September 26, said Pavel Vinogradov, a member of the outgoing crew
* Moscow police said they had detained activists from the extremist National Bolshevik Party after they burst into the Russian Finance Ministry building
* Russia's environmental watchdog ordered an inspection on the island of Sakhalin off Russia's Pacific coast in the region of the massive Sakhalin II energy project, the Ministry of Natural Resources said
* Russian prosecutors issued a warning that a BP joint venture operating in East Siberia could have its license revoked if it fails to address environmental protection and other problems
