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18:06 GMT 02.10.2008

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that he was certain the world would never again see a Cold War, despite recent tensions between the U.S. and Russia over the recent conflict in Georgia

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that he considered alleged Ukrainian arms supplies to Georgia during the recent war over South Ossetia 'a crime'

* The Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers agreed on an intergovernmental gas memorandum that removes intermediary traders from bilateral energy cooperation

* A criminal case concerning the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was submitted to court by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office

* The Russian Navy will receive at least eight new-generation submarines as part of a state armaments program through 2015, its deputy commander said

* Russia's Sukhoi aircraft maker has started flight tests of the second Su-35 Flanker multirole fighter to expedite the completion of the testing program, the company said

* Russian strategic bombers will conduct training flights with full combat payloads and live fire all cruise missiles on board for the first time in over two decades, an Air Force spokesman said

* Russia's Armed Forces urgently need new weaponry to replace the obsolete armaments inherited from Soviet times, the deputy defense minister for armaments has said

* A teacher at the high school that partially collapsed in Russia's Urals killing five teenagers has committed suicide, the school principal said

WORLD

* The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution calling on Russia to annul its recognition of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

* German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated once more during her visit to Russia that Georgia's territorial integrity was not an issue that was open for discussion

* U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to India on Friday following the approval of a landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation deal, the State Department said

* Several thousand ethnic Serbs protested against the deployment of an EU police and justice mission in Kosovo, regional media said

* U.S. senators have approved a nuclear agreement with India that essentially lifts a 30-year ban on the sale of civilian nuclear materials to the South Asian giant

* U.S. senators have approved a reworked $700 billion financial bailout package that was sweetened after the House of Representatives rejected the previous version of the plan

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said:

- Ukraine is ready to support Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO)

- Ukraine is ready to discuss a new pricing scheme for its natural gas imports from Russia, based on market principles

- Ukraine and Russia will switch to a new pricing scheme for Russian gas based on European market prices in the next three years

* Ukraine's parliament voted to revoke controversial laws backed by the premier reducing the president's powers, in a move to revive the country's pro-Western coalition amid the ongoing parliamentary crisis

* Israel and the Palestinian Authority will brief the members of the Middle East Quartet on progress in ongoing peace talks at an international summit in November, an Israeli newspaper reported

* South Ossetia's parliament has ratified a friendship and cooperation treaty with Russia, the republic's foreign minister, Murat Dzhioyev, said

* Georgia has asked Sweden to represent its interests in Russia, a Swedish newspaper quoted the Georgian ambassador to the Scandinavian country as saying

* The number of people killed in Tuesday's temple stampede in the western Indian state of Rajasthan has risen to 224, a police spokesman said

* Turkish archaeologists have found artifacts showing that Istanbul, earlier believed to be founded 2,700 years ago by the Greeks as Byzantium, is 8,500 years old, local media said

* Tourists in California have found a pilot's license thought to belong to the well-known millionaire-adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared last year and was declared dead in February, a senior local policeman said

BUSINESS

* Russia's Gazprom and Germany's E.ON AG signed an asset swap agreement involving northwest Siberia's Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and gas field

* Exxon Neftegas Limited, a subsidiary of U.S. oil major Exxon and operator of the Sakhalin-I oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast, said that it plans to boost natural gas output

* Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold mining company, said its net profit calculated to International Financial Reporting Standards totaled $132.4 million in January-June 2008 against a net loss of $74.9 million in the same period last year

SPORTS

* Zenit St. Petersburg have reacted angrily to claims that their recent UEFA Cup triumph was 'bought' by members of a Russian gang arrested by Spanish police in a nationwide operation last June

* Spartak Moscow drew 1-1 with Czech side Banic Ostrava in the Russian capital to progress to the group stages of the UEFA Cup