* Gazprom Deputy Board Chairman Alexander Medvedev said his company would not supply Ukraine with natural gas if a contact has not been signed by 2006
* Gazprom and Georgia's joint stock gas distribution company Tbilgazi signed a contract on supplying up to 920 million cu m of natural gas to Georgia at a price of $110 per 1,000 cu m in 2006
* Russia and Canada signed a protocol on the completion of bilateral talks on the former's accession to the World Trade Organization
* The Bow Street Magistrates Court denied Russia the extradition of Alexander Temerko, former vice president and deputy board chairman of embattled oil major Yukos
* The Uzbek Military Court sentenced 24 former Andijan prison officials to one to three years in jail
* The Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency said it had delivered 14kg of low-enriched uranium to Libya
* The lower house of the Russian parliament passed the NGO bill in its final reading
* A Moscow medical commission issued a final diagnosis attributing an illness that has mainly affected children and teenagers in Chechnya to psycho-emotional stress
