* Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said:
- Russia will have to adjust its military policy in response to NATO's political transformation
- U.S. plans to deploy an air defense system in Eastern Europe will compel Russia to take certain precautions
- Russia and NATO think it necessary to find a peaceful solution to the problems of Georgia's breakaway republics
- Georgia could try to tackle disputes with the self-proclaimed republics on its territory militarily
* The board of Gazprom has approved a draft investment program for 2007 worth 531.78 billion rubles ($19.77 billion), the Russian energy giant said
* A new docking attempt of the Progress M-58 cargo spacecraft with the International Space Station after a mechanical mishap was successful, the head of Energia rocket and space corporation said
* NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said:
- NATO is not planning to invite new members at its November summit in Riga
- Russia's role in conflict settlement is essential
* The draft UN resolution on Iran proposed by Britain, France and Germany does not correspond to the position coordinated earlier by the six powers mediating Tehran's controversial nuclear program, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
* Russia's external trade in the first nine months of 2006 reached $337.8 billion, up 28.9%, year-on-year, and the trade surplus totaled $112.4 billion, the Russian Economics Development and Trade Ministry said
* Atomstroiexport expects to complete the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran on schedule, the deputy head of Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly said
* Russia's nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko said:
- A Russian-Kazakh joint venture will mine its first metric ton of uranium in Kazakhstan in the first week of December
- An international uranium enrichment center constructed by Russia and Kazakhstan in Eastern Siberia will start operating by the end of 2006
* Vneshtorgbank (VTB) plans to set up a holding company consolidating its subsidiaries in Europe, to be headquartered in London, by the end of 2006, Andrei Kostin, the chief executive of Russia's state-run foreign trade bank, said
* Russia's Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has authorized Mezhregiongaz, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom that manages domestic sales, to organize experimental electronic trade in natural gas
* The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said it has launched a probe into an interview with the fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, published October 16 on the Internet
* Yevgeny Adamov, Russia's ex-nuclear power minister charged with embezzlement and abuse of office, said he will not ask the court to close his case because the statute of limitation has expired.
