* President Vladimir Putin met with Stephen J. Hadley, assistant to the U.S. president for national security
* The Russian and Iranian foreign ministers discussed the involvement of Russian companies in Iran's nuclear program
* Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev named the five major natural resources that will be restricted for access by foreign companies
* The world's largest steel producer, Mittal Steel, won an auction for the Krivorozhstal steel mill with a bid of $4.79 billion for 93.02% of the shares in the company
* The Kyrgyz government sharply criticized any attempts to destabilize the situation in the republic
* OSCE Chairman, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said negotiations to resolve the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict could be held in Ljubljana in November
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Zhukov said the GDP had grown by 5.9% in January-September 2005
