* Russian-EU draft agreements on simplification of visa procedures and readmission were initialed in Luxembourg
* Russia's largest state-owned oil company Rosneft reported 4.8-fold increase in oil deliveries to the domestic market and 3.4-fold increase in oil output in January-September 2005
* Natural gas monopoly Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and U.S. banking giant JP Morgan Chase CEO William Harrison discussed Gazprom's development prospects
* WINGAS, a Gazprom-BASF joint venture, and Gazexport, the Russian oil giant's export trader, have drawn up the main conditions for natural gas supplies through the North European gas pipeline
* Natural gas monopoly Gazprom, the country's largest tanker company Sovkomflot, and the Sevmorneftegaz oil and gas company signed a cooperation agreement on oil transportation from Russia's Arctic shelf
* Russian tennis-players Maria Sharapova and Yelena Likhovtseva entered the Kremlin Cup quarterfinals
* The Russian Foreign Ministry called the Georgian parliament's newly-adopted resolution on the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia a provocation
* Lithuania will return the wreckage of the Russian fighter that crashed in the country in mid-September as soon as an agreement on repaying damages is reached
* Police in Voronezh detained a suspect in an investigation into the killing of a Peruvian college student
