WASHINGTON, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has received the nominations for the position of IMF managing director, and will now begin the formal selection process.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 08:20 GMT

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct more tests of new warheads for its intercontinental ballistic missiles later this year, the SMF commander said Saturday.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 09:39 GMT

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – Russia takes a positive view of a report by the UN nuclear watchdog's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, on the Iranian nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 10:50 GMT

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – About half a million Russian nationals may vote in the upcoming State Duma election, due on December 2, the head of the Central Electoral Commission said Saturday.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 12:20 GMT

TBILISI, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – Georgia has completed the rotation of its contingent as part of a joint peacekeeping force in South Ossetia.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 13:42 GMT

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) – The massive explosion in Nazran, the largest city in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, could have been designed to destabilize the situation there, the republic's prosecutor said Saturday.

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 14:47 GMT

* The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has received the nominations for the position of IMF managing director, and will now begin the formal selection process

// Sep. 01, 2007 - 15:05 GMT