* A major terrorist attack was prevented in Ingushetia, a Russian constituent republic in the North Caucasus
* Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of precious metals, consolidated all its gold-mining assets to form a separate company, Polyus Zoloto
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid a one-day routine visit to Spain
* President Putin's nominee Oleg Chirkunov for governor of the new Federation member, the Perm Territory, was approved
* Russian rescuers began clearing debris and searching for victims in earthquake-hit Pakistan
* Police in the Russian city of Voronezh launched an investigation into assault that left one foreign student dead and two others seriously injured
* The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office launched criminal proceedings against the former secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko
* Russia's premier tennis tournament, the Kremlin Cup, began
* Russian presidential envoy Konstantin Pulikovsky met with North Korea's Chairman of the National Defense Commission Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang
* The Moscow Arbitration Court ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed by Yuganskneftegaz, overturning the Federal Tax Service's $197 million back tax bill for 1999
