* A police officer was shot dead in his police car when unidentified persons ambushed him from their vehicle in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, the regional law-enforcement bodies said
* The driver and two bodyguards of late Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev surrendered to local authorities in an amnesty bid, the law-enforcement bodies of Chechnya's capital said
* Russia and Belarus have different approaches towards building a Union State, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said
* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expressed the hope that the crisis in Belarus-Russia relations is over
* Russian investigators are preparing to go to Britain to investigate the murder of former Federal Security Service defector Alexander Litvinenko, Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said
* Three fishermen drowned and two others were rescued after they went under ice in the Volgograd Region in southern Russia, the regional emergencies center said
* A heavy fog grounded three Russian planes bound for Moscow in the Italian resort of Rimini, the airport's spokesman said
