* Russia's Economic Development and Trade Ministry has submitted a package of legal acts to liberalize the stock of Russian energy giant Gazprom
* Ukraine and the European Union began talks to ease visa regulations for Ukrainian nationals traveling to Europe
* Russia is planning to allocate $104 million in federal funds in 2006 to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, a more than 20-fold increase on last year's $4.5mln outlay, a leading Russian expert said
* The Russian state-owned agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank has placed a $250 million debut Eurobond issue, the bank's press office said
* A ceremony shutting down a U.S. military base in Khanabad, Uzbekistan was held in the central Asian republic, the Uzbek Defense Ministry's press service said
* Russia's damages from discriminatory measures against its goods on world markets has been estimated at $2 billion as of October 2005, a senior government official said
* Russia will grant $1 billion government guarantees to domestic producers in 2006, a senior government official said
* Disagreements that arose during talks at the preparatory Iraqi National Reconciliation Conference on November 19-21 in Cairo have prevented the sides from signing of a final declaration
*The average Russian household's real money dispensable income increased by 9.4% in January-October 2005 against the same period last year, the Federal State Statistics Service said
* The Russian Prosecutor General's office forwarded the case on the murder of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov to the Moscow City Court, the general prosecutor's website announced
