* Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said a report from UN weapons' inspectors on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction must be sent to the UN Security Council
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said he and his counterparts of the Group of Eight industrialized nations were scheduled to meet in April to determine a pilot project aimed to combat infectious diseases
* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that Tajikistan had been included in a list of poor nations entitled for aid from the Group of Eight industrialized nations
* Two people were hospitalized after a fire engulfed a Moscow office building that houses the offices of several Russian newspapers, including popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda
* Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft said that its U.S. GAAP net profit had increased almost six-fold in the first nine months of 2005, year-on-year, to $3.7 billion
