* Moscow court started hearings on the appeal of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky despite his request for an eight-week postponement
* The Ukrainian parliament approved President Viktor Yushchenko's nominee Yury Yekhanurov as Prime Minister
* Russia demanded that Latvian authorities extradite oligarch Boris Berezovsky who arrived in Riga
* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin opposed restricting oil exports and said Russia should take advantage of high world oil prices
* A Kyrgyz parliament member was shot dead in Bishkek, a second MP to be assassinated in three months
