* The Foreign Ministry said it approved of Lithuania's decision to allow the pilot of the Russian fighter that crashed in Lithuania in mid-September to return home
* The Russian Finance Ministry said Tuesday the Russian Stabilization Fund stood at 960.7 billion rubles ($33.6 billion) on October 1, 2005
* A team of Russian pediatricians led by Leonid Roshal left Moscow Tuesday for earthquake-ravaged Pakistan
* Standard & Poor's raised its long-term issuer credit rating on Russian Railways (RZD), the country's railroad monopoly, from "BB+" to "BBB-"
* The Finance Ministry said Russia's budget surplus in the first nine months of 2005 had totaled $27 billion
