* Warsaw is still refusing to lift its veto on Russia-EU talks on a new partnership deal, demanding that Moscow first end its embargo on Polish meat imports, Russia's envoy to the European Union said
* TVEL and Ukraine's national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom have signed a contract on Russian nuclear fuel supplies to Ukraine's power plants in 2007, Russia's atomic fuel producer and supplier said
* Gazprombank more than doubled its asset value in 2006, reaching 903.978 billion rubles ($34 billion) as of January 1, 2007, the subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom said
* China and Tajikistan signed a bilateral treaty on friendship and cooperation
* Russia's top prosecutors intend to ask UK authorities to investigate the death one of the founders of bankrupt oil company Yukos, who died in London last week, a law enforcement source said
* Gazprom Neft is set to launch an electronic tendering system for petroleum products, the Russian oil company said
* Ex-Russian nuclear power minister Yevgeny Adamov, who has been charged with fraud and abuse of office, pleaded not guilty
* Ukraine's president said parliament's decision to override his veto of the law on Cabinet appointments violates the National Unity Agreement signed in August
* A Georgian court ruled that the captains of the Russian and Ukrainian ships seized near Georgia earlier in January must pay about $23,000 each for illegally fishing in the country's territorial waters, the border police said
* Iran is continuing to install some 3,000 gas centrifuges, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding that the Islamic country stop uranium enrichment work, a spokesman for the government said
* A Moscow court sanctioned the arrest of banker Alexei Frenkel, a suspected paymaster in the September 2006 killing of Andrei Kozlov, a senior Central Bank regulator
* Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed amendments to the country's constitution enhancing his powers
* The Russian National Antiterrorism Committee said a total of 546 militants had accepted a surrender offer since its announcement
* Russian champions Ak Bars Kazan won the Silver Stone trophy for Europe's best hockey club following their victory in the European Hockey Champions Cup final
