* Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said his ministry proposed creating five technology parks in Russia, in cooperation with the Education and Science Ministry and the Information and Communication Ministry
* The Coronas-F satellite finished its orbital mission, and almost completely disintegrated after reentering the Earth's atmosphere
* The Russian Federal Space Agency and the Indian Space Research Organization signed an agreement on the joint research of solar physics and solar-terrestrial connections under the Coronas-Photon satellite project. The Russian Coronas-Photon spacecraft is set to be launched in 2007
* Russian Information and Communications Minister Leonid Reiman said after meeting EU leaders in Brussels that Russia would like to coordinate its position on Internet control with the European Union, and that Russia and the EU were making good progress in their efforts to build a common information space
* Russia's Federal Space Agency said the launch of a Proton-K rocket carrying three Global Navigation Satellites (Glonass) had been scheduled for December 25 at 05:07 GMT
* Jean-Jacques Dordain, the head of the European Space Agency, said a Soyuz carrier rocket would launch the first Galileo satellite from the Baikonur space center, which Russia leases from Kazakhstan, and the launch of a second satellite in the series would take place in April 2006.
* The heads of the Russian and Indian space agencies discussed the possibility of Russian companies participating in India's lunar exploration program, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency said
* Russia's Federal Space Agency said it would hold a closed tender among Russian space industry companies for the construction of a new Clipper manned spacecraft
