* Russian defense and diplomatic officials urged Iran to re-impose its moratorium on nuclear research
* Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn said the Supreme Rada would not annul its decision to dismiss Yuriy Yekhanurov's government
* LUKoil Vice President Leonid Fedun said Russia's leading independent oil producer had plans to increase its share of Kazakhstan's oil output to 10%
* The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said a fire that had broken out in ten 60-ton tanks containing oil products at an oil refinery in the country's Far East had been put out
* The Russian Navy General Staff condemned as a provocation the seizure by Ukrainian officials of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's lighthouse in Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea
