* Police have found two weapons caches in Chechnya, a law enforcement source said
* Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a heavy-water production plant in the town of Arak (190 km to the west of Tehran)
* Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who is also a prime minister, denied media reports that he intended to run for president
* The Federal District Court of San Francisco has sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko to nine years in prison and $10 million in fines for extortion, fraud, and money laundering
* Russia's defense minister denied that he had received any instructions to prepare a new national military doctrine
* The Russian government presented a draft federal budget for 2007 to the lower house of parliament
* The Russian prime minister said the government was ready to cooperate with the lower house of parliament in harmonizing the 2007 draft budget
* The Russian president said he planned to discuss the country's regional energy balance with the Cabinet
* Russia's nuclear power monopoly Rosatom has decided not to close the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in the Chukotka Autonomous Area, the head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power said
