* Russia and Brazil signed a final protocol on bilateral talks on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization
* The Georgian energy minister said Iranian natural gas would reach Georgia Sunday night or Monday morning to help solve the country's energy crisis
* The Iranian foreign minister said Russia and Iran had reached an agreement on certain points of Russia's proposal to form a joint venture to enrich uranium on Russian territory for Iran's nuclear energy program
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said Russia and Israel believed the principles of the roadmap for peace, a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, must be observed by all participants in Palestine's parliamentary elections
* Viktor Yanukovych, leader of Ukraine's Party of Regions and former presidential candidate, said all political forces in the country should cooperate in finding a solution to the country's political crisis
* Moscow police said a group of protesters had gathered outside the Defense Ministry building in Moscow in support of a serviceman left severely disabled after a brutal hazing attack at a Urals tank academy at the beginning of January
