* The Ukrainian parliament approved President Viktor Yushchenko's nominee, Yury Yekhanurov, as prime minister
* Moscow court reduced Khodorkovsky and Lebedev's prison sentences to eight years
* Russia said it was ready to help build North Korean 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
* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin opposed restricting oil exports and said Russia should take advantage of high world oil prices
* A Kyrgyz member of parliament was shot dead in Bishkek, the second MP to be assassinated in three months
* A Siberian serial killer was sentenced to 25 years in prison
