* Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said he was ready to run for president in 2008 as a common democratic candidate
* The Russian National Research Institute of Poultry Farming said it could produce a bird flu vaccine for poultry in two-three months
* A spokesman for the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne said Russian representatives would not be allowed to participate in extradition proceedings for former Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov
* British ambassador to Russia Tony Brenton said the European Union had allocated 20 million euros for socio-economic aid to the North Caucasus
* The Russian Industry and Energy Ministry said total investment in the Russian oil sector's production sharing agreement projects (PSA) Sakhalin-1, Sakhalin-2, and Kharyaga would hit $16 billion by the end of 2005
* The Federal Agency for the Management of Federal Property said the evaluation of state-owned Russian oil major Rosneft's assets would be complete by December
* The Moscow City Court acquitted four Moscow doctors accused of causing death by transplantation
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, currently in Washington, met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Richard B. Cheney and visited the U.S. Congress
* Ukraine's legislature, the Supreme Rada, rejected a memorandum on the use of Ukrainian freight aircraft in NATO missions
* Rioting continued in six penitentiaries and a pre-trial detention center in Kyrgyzstan
