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18:42 GMT 29.07.2009

RUSSIA

* Moscow asked Kiev to recall two senior diplomats from Russia, following a similar request from the Ukrainian side, the Foreign Ministry said

* The deployment of a Russian military base in southern Kyrgyzstan has been coordinated with Kyrgyz authorities, an aide to the Russian president said

*Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Tbilisi's actions prove Georgia's administration is only thinking about creating military and political hysteria

* Russia's Progress M-67 cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said

* Russian paratroopers will receive new weaponry and equipment in 2009 to increase their effectiveness in light of the recent conflict with Georgia, the Airborne Troops commander said

* Russian investigators have detained a suspect in the attempted murder of Isa Yamadayev, whose two brothers were gunned down in Moscow and Dubai over a seven-month period, an investigative committee spokesman said

* A Russian crime boss who has kept a low profile since his 2005 acquittal by the Russian Supreme Court over a 1992 murder has been wounded in a shooting in Moscow

WORLD

* Russia and Nicaragua are to introduce visa-free travel for their citizens under an agreement signed during Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin's visit to the Central American country

* A total of 65 people, including two pregnant women and six children, were injured when a bomb-laden truck exploded in the north Spanish city of Burgos

* Georgia's opposition will resume its protest action across the country in September, the Conservative Party said in a statement

BUSINESS

* Russia's antimonopoly agency has found state oil producer Rosneft to have broken antitrust laws in forcing up petrochemical prices, an agency spokesman said

* Russia will raise its oil export duty from the current $212.6 to $222 per metric ton from August 1, in line with a government resolution

* Russia's largest gold producer, Polyus Gold, said its gold output declined 14.4%, in January-June 2009, year-on-year, to 14.9 metric tons (479,000 troy ounces)

* Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft said its net profit under Russian Accounting Standards had declined almost 50% in January-June 2009, year-on-year, to 81.32 billion rubles ($2.6 bln)