* The Belarusian interior minister said Alexander Kozulin, a leader of opposition forces detained after a clash between the police and opposition, had called on people to overthrow power and kill the president
* A presidential envoy said Russian energy giant Gazprom would invest 1.7 billion rubles ($61 million) to supply natural gas to the Northwestern Federal District in 2006
* The sixth congress of the Rodina (Motherland) Party elected Alexander Babakov as its new chairman, replacing former leader Dmitry Rogozin, whose voluntary resignation was accepted earlier at a party congress
* Driver Oleg Shcherbinsky, acquitted in the road accident case that caused the Altai Territory governor's death in August 2005, will demand compensation for the damage inflicted upon his car, his lawyer said
* Russia's foreign intelligence service denied allegations made by the Pentagon that it had provided Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq with intelligence data in 2003 shortly before and during the U.S.-led invasion of the country
* The Russian Emergencies Ministry humanitarian convoy arrived in Transdnestr, a self-proclaimed republic in Moldova
