* Fouad Siniora said during at a RIA Novosti news conference in Moscow:
- He enlisted Russia's support in setting up an international tribunal to investigate the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
- Lebanon-based Islamist group Hezbollah's disarmament is a domestic issue for Lebanon
- He did not discuss deliveries of Russian-made air defense systems to his country during his official visit to Moscow
* Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said it will be impossible to bring inflation down to 6% in the next three years
* Russia's Air Force received its first two newly-built Su-34 Fullback bombers, expected to be the best aircraft in its class for years to come
* Kyrgyzstan's parliament passed a resolution instructing the government to consider closing a U.S. airbase in the Central Asian country's capital, Bishkek, following a U.S. airman's fatal shooting of a Kyrgyz national last week
* Russia's lower house of parliament passed a bill to unify two East Siberian regions in a move aimed at providing an economic boost and raising local living standards
* Russia's Comstar United Telesystems said it struck a loan agreement with Holland's ABN AMRO Bank N.V. for six months, worth $675 million
* A journalist for a German television and radio company, Deutsche Welle, was deported from Chechnya for not having of a required permit, a spokesman for the North Caucasus republic's law enforcement agencies said
* The head of Gazprom and Ukraine's fuel and energy minister discussed a possible increase of Russian natural gas transit via Ukraine to Europe in 2007, the energy giant said
* Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are set to start re-equipping their single-warhead mobile Topol-M (SS-27) intercontinental ballistic missile systems with multiple re-entry vehicles, the forces' commander said
* Russian state-owned uranium producer and trader Techsnabexport intends to take part in developing the world's largest copper and uranium deposit, Olympic Dam, in Australia, first deputy CEO Vadim Zhivov said
