- Russia, France and Germany are committed to a diplomatic resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue
- The creation of four common spaces remains a priority in cooperation between Russia and the European Union.
- Russian energy giant Gazprom may in the foreseeable future decide to redirect a part of resources from the Shtokman gas field to European markets
- Russia will send a small group of construction workers to Lebanon only if it is convinced that all political forces in the country agree to this
- Vneshtorgbank, Russia's state-run foreign trade bank, may hand its 5% stake in the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) to the new United Aircraft Building Corporation if the sides agree on Russia's industrial participation in the European holding
- The Energy Charter Treaty should be amended or a new document should be drafted
- Russia is ready to act as a guarantor of possible agreements on the resolution of 'frozen conflicts' in Georgia
* Russian and EU foreign ministers have agreed to start negotiations on a new partnership agreement to replace the current Partnership and Cooperation Agreement in 2007, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
* A ship with the remains of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, Tsar Alexander III's Danish-born wife, resting in Copenhagen since her death nearly 80 years ago, left Denmark Saturday and sailed to St. Petersburg
* Russian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was pleased with the Russian-Uzbek anti-terrorist exercise
* A law granting amnesty to militants and servicemen who committed offenses during the antiterrorism campaign in the North Caucasus entered into force
* Three militants were killed and four servicemen of the Interior Ministry's troops were wounded in an armed clash in eastern Chechnya, a spokesman for the operative headquarters for the Chechen Republic said
* European Parliament member Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a Social-Democrat, was elected Estonian president, defeating incumbent Arnold Ruutel in an electoral college vote
* Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov was nominated as candidate for presidential elections that will be held November 6, 2006
