- The company would raise the issue of Russian gas transit to European consumers via Ukraine at the 23rd World Gas Conference
- Ukraine may experience another shortage of natural gas this coming winter as gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy had not been pumping sufficient volumes of gas into its underground storage facilities
* Dutch economic affairs minister Laurens Jan Brinkhorst said Europe's dependence on natural gas imports would increase to 80% by the year 2030 from the current 48%, and that the share of liquefied natural gas in world gas trade would rise to 50%
* Mikhail Margelov, a senior member of the upper house of Russia's parliament, said the country was using all its connections with the Iraqi government to secure the release of its diplomats abducted in Baghdad Saturday
* President Vladimir Putin called on the media to display greater responsibility in their coverage of events at a press summit in Moscow
* Prosecutors said Yevgeny Ishchenko, the mayor of Volgograd, had been charged with abuse of office and illegal business activities
* State-owned oil pipeline operator Transneft said its IFRS net profit rose 23.6%, year-on-year in 2005, to 53.81 billion rubles (about $1.8 billion)
* The press center of former Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the jailed oligarch had been placed in an isolation cell for the third time
* Ukraine's Defense Ministry denied reports that a U.S. ship had delivered containers with toxic substances to a port in the Crimea
* Daghestan's police said at least 12 million rubles (over $440,000) had been stolen in an attack that left three people dead in the republic
* The Russian Embassy in Tehran said Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy head, would arrive in the Iranian capital Monday evening to give Iranian officials proposals drafted by the six nations leading efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem
* Roman Zvarych, a leader of the Our Ukraine pro-presidential movement, said work on a draft agreement to establish a parliamentary coalition in Ukraine had been virtually completed
* LUKoil, Russia's leading independent crude producer, said a production-sharing agreement to prospect and develop oil and natural gas fields in Uzbekistan would be signed by the end of 2006
* Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref said inflation in Russia stood at 0.5% in May and 5.9% in the first five months of 2006, representing a 1.4% decline on the same period last year
* About 1,700 editors and publishers of leading periodicals and top media managers from 104 countries gathered in Moscow for a three-day world press summit
* Russian Ambassador-at-Large Valery Kenyaikin said talks between Russian and Ukrainian diplomats on demarcating the long-disputed border between the countries, running through the Azov and Black Seas and the Kerch Strait had stalled
