* Norwegian narcotics officers made the largest cocaine bust in the country's history, seizing 190kg at the port of Mosjoen worth 10-12 million euros
* Presidential Administration Chief Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution on establishing the Russian President's Council Presidium, which will implement high-priority national projects
* Former head of Group Menatep Platon Lebedev, sentenced to eight years in jail, said he expected Russia's Supreme Court to review his verdict
* The penitentiary department of the Smolensk Region in Northwest Russia said 26 inmates at a local penal colony had gone on a hunger strike
* Russian oil company Yukos said its net profit according to Russian accounting standards in Q3 of 2005 had grown by 95.11% against Q2 to reach 1,280,131,000 rubles ($44.79 million)
* The Agriculture Ministry said Russia had banned poultry imports from a number of Danish and French regions after an outbreak of Newcastle disease November 1
* A teenager who beat a Chinese national to death in the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Urals federal district was found guilty
* Ukraine's parliament, the Supreme Rada, approved the appointment of Oleksandr Medvedko as the country's prosecutor general
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told President Vladimir Putin that tests of new strategic weapons would be completed by 2008 so the country would have new submarines and missiles
