* The Perm Territory, a newly-formed Russian region in the Urals, held its first regional legislature elections. As of 16:00 local time (11:00 a.m. GMT), about 26.7% of registered voters had come to the polls, crossing the electoral threshold of 25%
* Iran should suspend its uranium enrichment activities to continue talks with the international community, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said
* Azerbaijan is considering cutting the volume of oil exports to Russia via the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline in the wake of Russia's proposal to increase natural gas prices, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said
* The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Lebanese leaders to prevent the country from sliding into confrontation
* Seventeen districts that are home to some 471,000 people were left without electricity in Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus due to a power line breakage. The power line breakage was repaired within several hours and consumers were reconnected to the electric power grid
* Eight-year-old twin sisters Masha and Nastya Tolmachyov from Russia won Saturday the 4th Junior Eurovision song contest in Bucharest
