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19:59 GMT 14.08.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Russian government has introduced into the lower house of the Russian Parliament, the State Duma, an intergovernmental agreement with Mongolia on setting up joint uranium mining company with limited liability Dordon Uran

*The Kremlin regrets Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's inconsistent policy towards recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia

*Construction of international intermodal logistics center in Tashkent will be accomplished by the end of 2010, a spokesman for the Uzvneshtrans told RIA Novosti

*Severe thunderstorms and stormy winds battered the western regions of Austria, Austrian media reported

*China will mourn the victims of a severe mudslide in its northwestern Gansu Province on August 15, local media reported

*The Kremlin is ready to publish transcript of the CSTO meeting, at which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he was ready to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a Kremlin aide said

*Eleven people were killed and three more injured after a train derailed at a construction site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

*Belarus may refuse its deal with Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport on a construction of a nuclear power plant in the ex-Soviet republic

*The United States sends to Russia firefighting equipment worth some $4.5 million to help combating raging wildfires in the country that "is home to nearly one fourth of the world's forests"

RUSSIA

*The smog from the wildfires raging outside Moscow is covering the city after the 3-day relief

*Russia is working on the development of aerospace vehicles, Russian Air Force head Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said

*Russia is grateful to the United States over the assistance in tackling the wildfires raging across the country, Russian Foreign Ministry said

*Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov may change the name of his official title in September in case the Chechen parliament approves this initiative, the speaker of the Chechen parliament said

*The wildfires raging in the forests surrounding the Sarov Federal Nuclear Center in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region will not cause any radiation threats even if the fire enters the territory of the Center, the head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom said

*Mistral-class helicopter carriers, which Russia plans to buy from France, will be armed with Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopters, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin told the Ekho Moskvy FM station

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Moscow's authorities to improve the competitive environment in the city

*The Russian Air Force will entirely rearm its frontline aviation and army aviation within the next 10 years, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin told the Ekho Moskvy FM station

*Russian fifth-generation T-50 fighter, which is currently being developed by the Sukhoi aircraft manufacturer, will outstrip best world analogs, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin said

*The Air Defense System of Moscow and the Russian Central Economic region will receive new weapons, including prestigious S-400 and S-500 air defense systems, Air Force Commander Colonel General Alexander Zelin said

*The flagship of the Black Sea fleet, the RFS Moskva guided-missile cruiser, called in at the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka for an official visit