* Russia's Central Bank announced that the country's narrowly defined money supply (M1) was 2.1035 trillion rubles ($72.94 billion, based on the current exchange rate) as of December 19
* The Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency said it had delivered 14kg of low-enriched uranium to Libya
* The Russian parliament's lower house passed the NGO bill in its final reading
* The Bank of Russia's Board of Directors decided to cut the refinancing rate from 13% to 12% per annum as of December 26, 2005
* Chechen authorities said 83 people had been affected by unknown illness
