* Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said his country did not intend to seek compensation for alleged damages incurred during the Soviet period
* A jury in southern Russia cleared two Interior Ministry officers of committing murder in Chechnya
* Prosecutors confiscated documents in an NGO set up by jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as part of the investigation into suspected money laundering
* The lawyers of former Russian Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov intend to appeal a Swiss court's ruling to extradite him to the United States
* Russia's natural gas giant, Gazprom, intends to start the construction of the first sections of the North European Gas Pipeline by year's end
* Russian electricity monopoly Unified Energy Systems said it would consider concluding an option agreement on the purchase of a 30.41% stake in Silovye Mashiny
* Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in St. Petersburg for the Central Asian Cooperation Organization summit
