* The Ukrainian parliament approved President Viktor Yushchenko's nominee Yury Yekhanurov as prime minister
* Moscow court started hearings on the appeal of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky despite his request for an eight-week postponement
* Russia ready to help build North Korea nuclear power plant
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said using all revenues from oil exports would boost inflation
* Russia demanded that Latvian authorities extradite oligarch Boris Berezovsky who arrived in Riga
