* Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the transfer of the Constitutional Court to St. Petersburg with local authorities
* The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the concentration of nitrobenzene in the Amur River near Khabarovsk, in Russia's Far East, was within safe levels
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said the bill on non-governmental organizations in Russia, which the parliament's lower house, passed in the third and final reading Friday, did not contradict international standards
* Georgia's Defense Ministry said a Georgian peacekeeping battalion had returned home from Iraq as part of a regular rotation and another one will be sent in to replace it early next spring
* A powerful explosion near the regional government headquarters in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh set an adjacent building on fire, but left no one killed or injured
