* Kyrgyzstan's penitentiary service raised death toll of the November 1 riots in penal colonies to five
* Georgian Minister for Refugees Eteri Astemirova resigned over ministry restructuring, the president approved a new candidature
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Oleksandr Medvedko prosecutor general
* Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry, oil refineries and producers signed a memorandum to lower prices for fuels and lubricants
* Armenia's government allocated over $190,000 on a new dry spent nuclear fuel storage
* U.S. Congress approved a bill to grant $75 million in aid to Armenia and $3 million to Nagorny Karabakh in 2006
* Russia's Foreign Ministry said investigation was conducted into a Japanese fishing vessel detained near the South Kuril Islands with products banned for fishing onboard
* Russia for the first time celebrated National Unity Day, which replaced the day of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution
* Picketers gathered in front of the Polish embassy in Moscow to demand a new investigation into an execution of Polish officers by the KGB precursor in 1940
* President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill on Russia joining the 1945 Charter of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to parliament
