* Lithuanian authorities said the fate of Major Valery Troyanov, the pilot of the Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter that crashed in Lithuania in September, would be decided soon
* Russian Minister of Justice Yury Chaika said he doubted the United States would extradite former Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov to Russia
* President Putin said at the Russia-EU summit that Russia covered 90% of the European Union's natural gas needs
* The Moscow Arbitration Court cut additional tax claims against TNK for 2001 from about $140 million to $1.4 million
* The presidium of the Russian Arbitration Court rejected an appeal filed by Yukos and ruled that its $3.5 billion tax bill for 2000 was legal
* At least four people were killed and 13 injured in a car pileup involving 38 vehicles in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow
* Two members of a radical Islamic political party were detained in the Moscow region on charges of drug trafficking
* The Russian Finance Ministry said it would not relax budget policy but confirmed that the state would gradually withdraw from financial markets
* The European Union said it would send a mission to the Moldova-Ukrainian border
