* A police source in Russia's Far East said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of embattled oil giant Yukos, had been transferred to a local penal colony to serve out his eight-year sentence
* The Norwegian Coast Guard said it was happy the incident involving the Russian trawler, chased by the Coast Guard for fishing violations after fleeing with two Norwegian inspectors aboard, had been settled
* A Russian RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (NATO reporting name Stiletto), launched from the Baikonur Space Center, hit its target on a test range in the Russian Far East
* The Economic Development and Trade Ministry said restrictions on the access of foreign companies to Russian natural deposits could only apply to five major deposits
* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Russia would save $1 billion on interest from early debt repayment to the Paris Club, expanding its investment fund by this amount in 2006
* U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Burns said a Russian-U.S. agreement on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization could be signed by the end of 2005
* Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said all limitations on capital movement would be cancelled in Russia in 2007
* ABN Amro Bank N.V. and Dresdner Kleinwort are to provide a $2.5 billion syndicated loan to Gazprom as part of a $13 billion credit arrangement to finance the natural gas monopoly's acquisition of oil major Sibneft
* Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom said its unaudited net profit in the first quarter of 2005 had grown 34%
