- The Georgian government has been consistently conducting an anti-Russian policy
- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili seems to believe that Georgia's accession to NATO will help him to resolve stalled conflicts with country's breakaway regions
- Russia is not going to look on as Georgia steps up its military preparations
- Russia is not yet ready to restore travel links with Georgia, which were suspended Monday in the wake of a spying scandal involving Russian army officers
- Russian sanctions against Georgia, including the suspension of transport and mail links with the former Soviet republic, aim to stop illegal capital flows
- Moscow sees no need for mediators in its relations with Georgia
- The Iranian and North Korean nuclear problems should be resolved by diplomatic and peaceful means
- A conflict surrounding Moldova's breakaway Transdnestr province will be on his agenda as he meets with Ukrainian officials in the capital of Kiev in November
* Russia submitted a draft resolution on Georgia to the UN Security Council, urging the international body to insist on the withdrawal of Georgian troops from the Kodori Gorge and to prolong the mandate of Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia until April 15, 2007
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow urges Pyongyang to show restraint over its intention to hold nuclear tests that could aggravate the situation on the Korean peninsula
* President Vladimir Putin said Kazakhstan will join an initiative to set up international uranium enrichment centers in Russia
* Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev said a customs union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus must be formed by March 2007
* Igor Ivanov, Russia's Security Council secretary, arrived in Tehran to discuss with his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani a range of issues, including Iran's controversial nuclear program
* Russia's lower chamber of parliament will consider October 6 whether to ratify an agreement between Russia and Georgia on the withdrawal of Russian troops in the South Caucasus country, a senior MP said
* The Industry and Energy Ministry said Russia is planning to produce 124 million tons of crude and 171.4 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the fourth quarter of 2006
* U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips said it had increased its stake in LUKoil to 19% in the first eight months of 2006 from 18% in the second quarter of the year
* Two planes with Russian combat engineers arrived in Lebanon, a senior military official said
* Rosneft is planning to set up a joint venture with China National Petroleum Corporation to conduct geological prospecting in East Siberia, a vice president of the Russian company said
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Russia supports Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea's minister of foreign affairs and trade, as a candidate for UN secretary-general
* Police in Moscow said they have detained 10 youth activists after eggs were thrown at the Georgian Embassy
* A deputy head of Russia's immigration service said Russian and Belarusian authorities are in talks over the scrapping of the visa-free regime between Belarus and Georgia
* A court in the Saratov region, 530 miles southeast of Moscow, has sentenced three Russian hackers accused of extorting $4 million from world Internet companies to eight years in prison each, as well as a $3,700 fine
* The Georgian Embassy to Russia said an employee accused of kicking a Russian youth during a recent anti-Georgian protest had been provoked
