* Latvia's National Security Council recommended declaring Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky a persona non grata
* The Russian navy said Norwegian coast guard inspectors, who remained on board the Elektron trawler after it set course for Russian waters, would board a Norwegian naval ship Thursday
* Officials said ten civilians had been killed in the attack by militants on the North Caucasus city of Nalchik on October 13-14
* A Moscow court sanctioned the arrest of senior officials of the Federal Tax Service and Central Bank, who are charged with receiving a $1 million bribe
* Russian oil major Lukoil said it had increased its oil production by an estimated 4.3% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2005
* Lithuanian authorities said they wanted 30,000 euros from Russia for damages caused by the Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter that crashed in the Baltic state in September
* The Lithuanian prime minister said Lithuania intended to hold negotiations with Russian-British joint venture TNK-BP and other contenders on the sale of a controlling stake in the Mazeikiu nafta oil company
* The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Russia's GDP had grown 5.9% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2005
* Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft said it expected oil production to increase by 9.3% year-on-year in 2006
* NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO's doors were always open to Ukraine
