* Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder met in St. Petersburg
* Uzbek President Islam Karimov told Putin in St. Petersburg that the two countries should develop their strategic partnership
* The Georgian ambassador to Russia said Tbilisi might denounce agreements on the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict
* A Russian senior military official said Russia and NATO would conduct joint anti-terrorism exercises in summer 2006
* Russia's chief of the General Staff said the Russian army would increase its weapons acquisitions by 50% next year
* Russia conducted a test launch of a sea-based modified ballistic missile with a Demonstrator spacecraft on board
* A Russian Foreign Ministry official confirmed that U.S. prosecutors had visited the ministry to discuss the extradition of Russia's former nuclear power minister
* Prosecutors in Siberia initiated criminal proceedings against the general director of the oil company Tomskneft, the largest of embattled major Yukos' remaining subsidiaries
* Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer said prosecutors had raided the defense team's offices in their absence without a court order
* Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and Pakistan's petroleum ministry signed a memorandum cementing agreements on oil and gas cooperation
* The head of European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said the company intended to cooperate with Russia in developing its new A-350 passenger plane
* A German man and a Polish woman were sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for smuggling 11 kilograms of cocaine into Russia
