* President Vladimir Putin congratulated railway workers and veterans with their professional holiday, the presidential press office said
* Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Iran will continue its uranium enrichment activities despite a UN Security Council resolution
* Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said a UN Security Council resolution will not affect Iran's relations with Russia and China
* U.S. sanctions against two Russian state-owned defense companies are related to competition, said Vladimir Paleshchuk, a deputy general director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation
* The Iranian ambassador to Moscow transferred an oral message of Iran's Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki to Russia's First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov on the situation in Lebanon
