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19:59 GMT 27.08.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Russians who visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia without crossing the Georgian border may be fined or jailed, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said

*NATO air forces on Thursday killed six Afghan children during an air attack on Taliban positions in the troubled eastern province of Kunar, a local police chief said

*Belarus has refused for the second time a request to extradite the ousted Kyrgyz president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz prosecutor general said

*More than 17,000 people have entered an international contest to become a panda keeper in southwestern China, the organizers said

*The Indian-Russian venture BrahMos Aerospace Ltd. plans to produce engines for Brahmos missiles in India, CEO Sivathanu Pillai said

*A radio contact with the International Space Station (ISS) was made from the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru, local media reported

*Three people were wounded in an explosion aimed against a district head of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a local police spokesman said

RUSSIA

*Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who heads the ruling United Russia party, is not completely satisfied with its performance but believes it plays consolidating role in society

*Russia has not yet fully recovered from the global economic crisis so the government will continue to implement anti-crisis measures, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

*Isa Yamadayev, who lost two of his older brothers in assassinations linked to Ramzan Kadyrov, rejected reports that he had been forced to make peace with the Chechen president

*The Russian government imposed a ban on the export of grain from August 15 to December 31, after abnormally hot and dry weather destroyed the grain harvest in almost 11 million hectares of land across central Russia

*Russia's sanitary watchdog has approved four more U.S. facilities for the export of poultry to Russia, leaving a ban in place for just five plants, Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement

*Russia's car industry had a pleasant surprise for Vladimir Putin as the prime minister was moved to praise the Lada Kalina he is driving through four Far Eastern Russian regions

*France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland back Russia's initiative to set up an international unit to react to global emergencies, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said

*Russian businessman Viktor Bout, awaiting extradition to the United States on arms trafficking charges, said he knows no Russian state or military secrets

*An article on the Viktor Bout case published on Thursday by a Russian Foreign Ministry official in the English-language Moscow Times daily does not represent Russia's official position on the issue, the ministry said

*Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government was ready to take into account environmentalists' concerns over the construction of the controversial Moscow-St. Petersburg highway, but warned them against politicizing the issue

*Russian authorities will increase environmental control while developing its Arctic continental shelf, Deputy Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi said

*Rescuers have found the bodies of two missing crewmembers from a Russian tugboat that sank in the Laptev Sea in Russia's Far East in the early hours, a local emergencies spokesman said

*Russians currently do not see emigration as a key to solving their problems, the general director of the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) said

*The Russian Federal Service for Defense Contracts (Rosoboronzakaz) has proposed changes to the country's procurement system, a business daily said

*A Ukrainian delegation headed by the country's energy minister, Yury Boiko, is to arrive in Moscow on Friday for talks with Gazprom's management, the Russian gas monopoly's spokesman said

*Moscow recently spoke with Washington about alleged arms smuggler Viktor Bout, who is expected to be extradited from Thailand to the United States, the U.S. Department of State said

*Russia's Elena Dementieva advanced to the semifinals of the Pilot Pen tennis tournament in New Haven, Connecticut, with $600,000 of prize money up for grabs