* The Supreme Court of Zurich sentenced Russian Vitaly Kaloyev to eight years in jail for the premeditated murder of a Swiss air traffic controller
* President Vladimir Putin met with heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
* Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Israel and Palestine
* A Norwegian spokesman said a court would hear the case of two arrested Russian vessels in the middle of December, if their owners do not pay fines before proceedings begin
* The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Russia's GDP had grown 5.9%, production output increased 4%, and inflation hit 8.6% in the first nine months of 2005
* The Industry and Energy Ministry said Russia had invested over $1 billion in the United States in 2005
* LUKoil said it planned to increase the share of natural gas in its hydrocarbon production volume to 33%
* An attorney in the United States representing minority shareholders in Russian embattled oil major Yukos claimed that they were owed $6 billion in damages
* Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis put fugitive Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on the Latvian persona non grata list
