* Election authorities said Nursultan Nazarbayev, who won a landslide victory in Kazakhstan's presidential elections Sunday, had been officially registered as president
* U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the Ukrainian leadership in the country's capital, Kiev
* U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meeting Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko that the U.S. might soon grant Ukraine market economy status
* President Vladimir Putin called the last 12 months in Russian-Ukrainian relations "a year of missed opportunities" while receiving Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn in the Kremlin
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he expected a positive response from the World Trade Organization over his country's bid to join the organization
* Ukraine-based alcohol producer Soyuz-Viktan said it planned to eventually corner 10% of Russia's alcohol market
* The Ukrainian parliamentary speaker said the potential for economic cooperation between Ukraine and Russia remained largely untapped
* The prime minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia said that Georgia's breakaway republic was an independent state and would never be a part of Georgia again
* Georgian State Minister for Separatist Conflicts Georgy Khaindrava said talks with the Abkhazian authorities on the European Commission's economic revival program in the conflict zone had been successful
* Sardar Jalaloglu, a leader of the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, said Azerbaijan's opposition parties would turn their backs on Washington if it fails to deliver on its pledge to support democracy in the country
