* Restoration of the Soviet-era gas pipeline going from Central Asia to Russia via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will help increase its capacity to at least 90 billion cubic meters, the Russian energy minister said
* Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was ready to invest in developing Turkmenistan's gas fields on the Caspian shelf
* Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said the Trans-Caspian pipeline project to export gas across the Caspian Sea to southern Europe bypassing Russia was still on the agenda
* Some 45.8% of more than 2 million Armenian voters cast their votes in the country's fourth parliamentary elections by 5 p.m. local time (midday GMT), or three hours before the closing time, election authorities said
* Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin dismissed reports that the new St. Petersburg-Tallinn rail link would be canceled as unprofitable
* A working group set up to resolve a political standoff in Ukraine agreed on a preliminary package of amendments required to hold early parliamentary elections, a senior government official said
* Russia's Foreign Ministry said it was satisfied with the successful resolution of an incident in the Embassy in Costa Rica caused by an armed man who eventually surrendered to police
* Unidentified people broke into a branch of Russia's state savings bank, Sberbank, Saturday, killed two security guards and stole more than 38 million rubles ($1.5 million), a local prosecutor said
* Progress M-60, a Russian resupply ship, separated from a Soyuz launch vehicle to carry food, fuel, and new equipment to the International Space Station where it is expected May 15
