Below is a summary of the main military-related events in Russia, the CIS and neighboring countries on December 13, 2005
* A joint control committee appointed military observers from Russia, Moldova and the self-proclaimed republic of Transdnestr to monitor the situation in the disputed region, a spokesperson for the committee said.
* In 2005, sappers cleared more than 110,000 square meters of land in central Tajikistan and along the Tajik-Afghan border, destroying 1,800 anti-personnel mines and unexploded munitions, a Tajik official said
* The Russian Federal Agency for Construction said it would issue 4,000 state housing certificates for the Defense Ministry in December 2005, worth over $110 million
* Head of the housing department at the Russian Defense Ministry, Colonel General Anatoly Grebenyuk said the ministry planned to resolve the service-housing problem for military personnel by 2012
* Speaker of the Russian parliament's lower chamber Boris Gryzlov said the State Duma was not planning to discuss amendments to the law on military service in the near future, but the defense ministry proposed to cut the number of existing deferments by 40%
* Two officers responsible for the transportation and destruction of decommissioned armaments in the Pacific Ocean city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were detained in connection with a blast at a scrap metal plant that left two people dead, the military prosecutor's office said
