* The speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, Sergei Mironov, has been elected chairman of the new Russian party A Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, which was founded Saturday uniting three parties
* Two of the three power units remain operational at the Leningradskaya nuclear power plant near Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg after Saturday's emergency shutdown, the Russian nuclear power generating monopoly said
* Another 48 Georgian nationals deported from Russia have landed in Tbilisi, the Novosti Georgia agency reported
* Russia's economic development and trade minister, the governor of the Kaluga Region southwest of Moscow, and the management of Germany's Volkswagen carmaker laid the cornerstone into the foundation of a motor plant in the region
* Iran officially confirmed the launch of a second cascade of gas centrifuges to enrich uranium
* Two bodies were pulled out of the water Saturday by a Russian Navy ship searching for Russian sailors from a sunken cargo ship in the Sea of Japan, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said
