* President Vladimir Putin said $6.2 billion would be allocated for four national projects with account for non-budgetary funds and state guarantees
* A court in the Moscow Region handed down a four-year suspended sentence to Tamara Rohklina for murdering her husband, General Lev Rokhlin, who was a member of the lower chamber of parliament
* Russia's largest private natural gas producer, Novatek, said it wanted to build a gas-condensate pipeline with a projected annual capacity of 20-25 million metric tons to link northern Siberia with European Russia
* Anatoly Chubais, the head of energy monopoly Unified Energy System, said Russia's power industry had lost $500 million in 2005 because of tariffs set in accordance with the deflation principle
* Russian energy giant Gazprom forecasted the company would make over $27 billion from natural gas exports in 2005
