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19:59 GMT 08.10.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pledged to improve his country's troubled relations with Russia

* Ukraine's parliament voted to amend the country's constitution to make the presidential term of office the same as the amount of time a deputy is elected for - 5 years

* NATO sees no need for a new Russian-backed security system in Europe, the alliance's secretary general said

RUSSIA

* Moscow and Kiev intend to establish a Russia-based joint venture on uranium enrichment, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said

* Moscow's ex-mayor Yury Luzhkov began working in his new role as a dean at the city's International University

* The brother of ousted Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov's wife has called on Russia's investigative committee to probe the "criminal activity" of his sister, Yelena Baturina

BUSINESS

* The CIS Economic Court recommended that the Russian and Belarusian governments negotiate the suspension of export duties on Russian oil products supplied to Belarus, a court official said

* Russia and India have signed an agreement on the creation of a joint venture to develop and manufacture a multifunctional transport aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said

DEFENSE

* The next test launch of Russia's troubled Bulava ballistic missile is preliminarily set for late October, a source in the test commission said

SCIENCE

* Russia's Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan