* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said opposition forces are trying to overthrow the government but their attempts will fail
* An opposition movement spokesman said the management of Kyrgyzstan's State Television and Radio Company canceled a live show with opposition leaders promised earlier as mass protests continued in the Central Asian country
* Russia's nationalist forces said they were resolved to hold massive rallies across the country November 4 to mark National Unity Day, despite the refusal of authorities to sanction the action
* Russia's Finance Ministry said it extended until November 10 the deadline for bids to convert commercial debt of the former Soviet Union to Eurobonds and cash
* Russia's second-largest mobile operator, VimpelCom, signed a deal with Greece's Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (HTO) to acquire 90% in Armenia's leading phone company Armentel for 341.9 million euros ($436 million), the company said
* The head of a subcommittee on atomic energy in Russia's lower house of parliament said a law allowing the creation of a unified state company to control Russia's nuclear power sector could be adopted by the end of the year
* Iranian television reported Iran test-launched three new missiles during an exercise in the Persian Gulf
* WGC-1 is planning to attract some 20 billion rubles ($749 million) through an additional issue of shares, the Russian power generating company's general director said
* Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said Tbilisi is ready to resume talks on its conflicts with the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia without any preliminary conditions
* A Moscow court rejected a claim from Russia's Federal Property Management Agency seeking to regain state control of a 20% stake in the Apatit fertilizer company held by bankrupt oil company Yukos
* Russian oil company RussNeft and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) signed a production-sharing agreement to develop two oil fields in Azerbaijan
* Russia's Federal Space Agency said it will pay Kazakhstan more than $1 million in compensation for the crash of a booster rocket this past summer on its territory
* One police officer was killed and three wounded in a road bridge bombing in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus, a regional prosecutor said
* A Siberian court rejected the appeal of Vladimir Novosyolov, a medical professor convicted of smuggling dozens of corpses to controversial German anatomist Gunther von Hagens
* Russia's lawmakers addressed the parliaments UN member states, asking them to officially condemn the 44-year economic embargo against Cuba by the United States
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said:
- Russia is still ready to work out gradual measures to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem in a way that fits the reality of the situation on the ground
- Georgia should stop its hostile actions and normalize relations with Russia
- Moscow is concerned over the confrontation between the opposition and authorities in Kyrgyzstan, and hopes the situation can be resolved within the law
