* Atomstroiexport, a Russian contractor in Iran, said there were no grounds for the suspension of construction work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov denied media reports that Moscow and Tehran were negotiating sales of S-300 air-defense missile systems but said the Iranian "nuclear file" situation would not affect a contract to deliver Russian Tor-M1 air-defense systems to Iran
* The Austrian ambassador in Moscow said the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, France, and Russia would hold a meeting to discuss the Iranian nuclear problem in Vienna on February 15
* Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn said the Supreme Rada would not annul its decision to dismiss Yuriy Yekhanurov's government
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said the seizure by Ukrainian officials of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's lighthouse in Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea, would harm Russian-Ukrainian relations
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said he had not received documents on a lawsuit filed by minority Yukos shareholders with a U.S. court
* The Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Russian-German trade had grown by 40% year-on-year in 2005 to stand at $32 billion
* 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%
* A bus collided with a train Friday morning in southern Russia leaving at least 20 people dead
* Prosecutors said a 20-year-old Muscovite had been officially charged with three counts in connection with an attack on a synagogue in central Moscow that left eight people hurt
