* The government hopes that inflation will not exceed 5% in 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said
* Police found a cache full of ammunition in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region
* President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Moldovan president with the 15th anniversary of the republic's independence
* President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Russian coal industry's workers and veterans with Miners Day
* Dagestani warlord Gadzhi Melikov was killed in a special operation in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region
* Russian tennis player Nikolai Davydenko won the U.S. New Haven title Saturday, beating Agustin Calleri (Argentina) 6-4, 6-3
* Patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia Alexy II urged world religious leaders at the 8th Assembly of the World Conference of Religion for Peace in Kyoto, Japan, to counter terrorist attempts to exploit believers' feelings
