* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the documents used by the Volcker Commission are forged.
* Lower House Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky denied allegations made in a report to the UN's Oil-for-Food program that he received major oil quotas from the former leadership of Iraq
* Ukraine's State Property Fund and Mittal Steel Germany signed an agreement on the latter's purchase of 93.02% of the shares in the Kryvorizhstal steel mill
* State-owned oil major Rosneft said it intended to invest about $1 billion in developing the Vankor oil and gas field in the Krasnoyarsk Territory
* A group of ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet headed by the Varyag missile cruiser arrived in Indonesia to mark the first Russian fleet presence in the area since 1968
