* Nursultan Nazarbayev, the incumbent president of Kazakhstan, cruised to an easy victory in Sunday's elections with a preliminary 91% of the vote
* Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the head of the Kremlin administration to prepare amendments to a bill on non-commercial organizations in five days
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a Moscow news conference that Russia was ready to supply Iran with Tor-M1 anti-aircraft systems, that Russia had no plans to supply India with Tu-160 Blackjack or Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers and that Russia and India could both use the Aini airfield in Tajikistan
* Konstantin Pulikovsky, former presidential envoy to Russia's Far Eastern Federal District, has been appointed head of the Federal Agency for Environmental, Technological and Atomic Oversight
* 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
* Russia and Syria signed two major contracts worth $370 million in the gas industry
* Russia's Ministry of Agriculture said it was imposing restrictions on poultry imports from Ukraine due to the bird flu threat
* Stefan Wehrenberg, the lawyer of former Russian Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov, said he hoped the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne could pass the ruling on his client's case before Christmas
* Russia's Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) approved electricity giant Unified Energy System's bid to buy a stake in Silovye Mashiny, the country's leading heavy machinery manufacturer
* The launch of a Proton-M Russian carrier rocket, carrying a U.S. AMC-23 satellite (WorldSat-3) was postponed until December 7
