* FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev officially said international terrorist Abu Omar al-Seif, the main representative of al-Qaeda in the North Caucasus, had been killed in the Republic of Daghestan
* The Russian government said it had given energy giant Gazprom the right to use a sector of the country's continental shelf located in the southeast of the Barents Sea
* The Federal Service for State Statistics said Russia's industrial production grew 4% in January-November year-on-ear and oil output grew by 2.2% in January-October year-on-year
* Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said the first leg of the $4 billion Boguchansk hydroelectric plant in Siberia was expected to be commissioned in 2010
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow expected Pyongyang to release a Russian ship, the Terney, detained in North Korea's territorial waters December 5 after an additional probe into the incident completed
