* A court in the Rostov Region in Russia's south found two persons guilty of large-scale drug sales and sentenced them to long prison terms, the regional department of the Federal Security Service said
* Moldova launched a rigorous quality control and certification system for wines and liquors it sells both domestically and abroad, the presidential press office said
* Iran will soon start industrial production of nuclear fuel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
* Military prosecutors investigating the death of a soldier at a Russian base in Georgia believe it was an accident, a spokesman said
* One attacker was killed and a policeman and two passersby were injured in a shootout in the capital of the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, the local police said
* A group of housing investors who lost their money in residential blocks that were never built has asked British authorities for help, a spokesman for Britain's embassy in Moscow said
* A light sports plane crashed in Tyumen in Russia's West Siberia, killing both pilots, the regional emergencies center said
