* Belarus is satisfied with the results of two-day oil talks in Moscow this week, Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said
* A joint commission overseeing a ceasefire between Moldova and Transdnestr ruled following a clash in the post-Soviet conflict zone early Saturday that peacekeepers set up an additional checkpoint in the area
* A Georgian court denied bail to the captain of the Russian fishing vessel arrested January 10 for allegedly fishing in Georgia's territorial waters, ruling he spend two months in jail pending investigations, Sergei Rybkin's lawyer said
* Prosecutors in a Urals city have charged two local residents with killing a priest on Orthodox Christmas night, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said
* Sixty-three fishermen stranded on drifting ice in the Rybinsk Sea, a vast water reservoir on the Volga River and two of its tributaries in Central Russia, have been rescued, a local emergencies service said
* The third Russian Winter Festival opened on London's Trafalgar Square Saturday in weather more resembling spring with air temperatures rising to 13 degrees Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit)
* Vladimir Kappel, a Russian general who fought against the Bolsheviks in the 1918-1920 Civil War, was reburied with full military honors in Moscow
