* Lithuanian prosecutors released from custody Valery Troyanov, the pilot of a Russian fighter that crashed in Lithuania in September
* The Moscow Bar Association said it would consider prosecutors' request to disbar three members of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky's defense team on October 21
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said in Brussels that his government would continue moving toward European integration
* Anatoly Chubais, the head of the Russian electricity giant Unified Energy Systems, said the company might agree on a price corridor for power exports to China by the end of 2005
* The board of the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom said the company's gas reserves were expected to increase by 568.7 billion cubic meters in 2006