* President Vladimir Putin called Russia-EU relations positive
*The Russian Prosecutor General's Office conducted seizures in financial institutions as part of the Yukos case investigation
* President Vladimir Putin presented state awards in London to the British sailors who helped rescue Russian seamen trapped onboard a mini-submarine
* The Russian gas giant Gazprom was granted 30-year licenses to develop natural gas fields in Venezuela
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Switzerland's decision to extradite Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov to the United States would affect Russian-Swiss relations
* NASA officials arrived in Moscow for talks on Russian and U.S. funding for the International Space Station
* President Vladimir Putin said he hoped the ring fence around Gazprom shares would be lifted soon to allow foreign investors to buy the natural gas monopoly's shares
* Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas said Russia's LUKoil and the Russian-British TNK-BP were favored to win the bid for controlling interest in Lithuanian oil major Mazeikiu Nafta.
* Ukraine's Defense Ministry said the country would conduct its first launch of live missiles since a Ukrainian missile downed a Russian plane in 2001
