* Commander of Russia's military contingent in South Caucasus, Major General Andrei Popov, said the troops in the region would remain on high alert until further notice and in the event of a contingency situation or a provocation, they had been ordered to counter them by any means necessary, including shooting to kill
* Russia suspended travel and postal links with Georgia
* Alexander Neradko, head of the Federal Air Transportation Agency, said a decision to suspend air traffic with Georgia was based on the South Caucasus country's outstanding debt
* The press service of Russia's Security Council said Secretary Igor Ivanov would hold talks with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Tuesday
* The Finance Ministry said Russia's Stabilization Fund stood at more than $70.7 billion as of October 1, 2006
* Talks between Russia and the United States on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will continue in a week, Russia's top delegate said
* Russian nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko said Russia would start building the third and fourth power units of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China after the first and second units are launched
* Enver Ziganshin, a top manager with Rusia Petroleum, a TNK-BP subsidiary, has been killed in Siberia, a spokesman for local police said
* Russia's Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Russian prosecutors against a Moscow court's refusal to extradite a former Tajik trade minister, Khabibullo Nasrulloyev, wanted on treason and murder charges at home
* Moscow police said fifty activists of the radical National Bolshevik Party were detained trying to break into parliament
* The new editor Russia's Kommersant daily vowed on his first day at work to maintain the daily's editorial policy under its new tycoon owner
