* A jury in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don cleared two Interior Ministry officers of committing murder in Chechnya
* The lawyers of former Russian Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov intend to appeal a Swiss court's ruling to extradite him to the United States
* Russia's natural gas giant, Gazprom, intends to start the construction of the first sections of the North European Gas Pipeline by the end of the year
* The Finance Ministry said Russia's Stabilization Fund had grown by $4.5 billion since September 1
* Lithuanian prosecutors released from custody Valery Troyanov, the pilot of a Russian fighter that crashed in Lithuania in September
