* The Moscow Election Commission said United Russia had taken 47.25% of the vote in the Moscow legislature elections, the Communist Party - 16.75% and Yabloko - 11.11% with 100% of the votes counted
* President Vladimir Putin instructed the head of the Kremlin administration to prepare amendments to a bill on non-commercial organizations in five days
* The Russian Finance Ministry said the Stabilization Fund totaled $42.7 billion as of December 1, 2005
* Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said inflation stood at 0.7% in November and 10% in January-November 2005
* Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, the leader of the Kazakh opposition said there were a large number of violations during presidential elections in the Central Asian republic Sunday that brought a landslide victory to incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev
