- Russia and India plan to form a titanium production joint venture
- Moscow and New Delhi are preparing to sign an agreement on the construction of additional power units for the Kudankulam NPP and of new nuclear plans in India under Russian designs
- Moscow is interested in Indian capital investment in the Sakhalin III oil and gas project in Russia's Far East
- India could get access to global navigation system GLONASS in the future
* The Russian ambassador to Georgia, who was recalled in September 2006 amid a furious diplomatic row between the ex-Soviet neighbors, is returning to Tbilisi to resume work, Russia's charges d'affaires in Georgia said
* Environmental damage inflicted by the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast amounts to $5 billion, the head of the Russian Audit Chamber said
* The Federal State Statistics Service said:
- Russia's industrial output grew 3.9% year-on-year in 2006
- Russia's oil production grew 2.1% in the first 11 months of 2006, year-on-year, to 438.6 million metric tons
* Russia's top prosecutors have suspended a probe against Boris Berezovsky, charged with attempting to stage a coup, one of the fugitive billionaire's lawyers said
* Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, the commander of the Russian Space Forces, said:
- Russian Space Forces plan to place a new radar system in the south of Russia on combat duty this year
- Angara, a new-generation launch vehicle being developed by Russia, will undergo flight tests in 2010
- Deployment of U.S. radars in the Czech Republic and Poland threatens Russia
* Russia will supply nuclear fuel to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant it is helping to build in India in the second quarter of 2007, the country's top nuclear official said
* Tehran said it had refused 38 experts from the UN nuclear watchdog permission to inspect the country's nuclear facilities, in retaliation against sanctions against Iran ordered by a UN Security Council resolution passed a month ago
* Iran is continuing to build uranium enrichment centrifuges under IAEA monitoring and in compliance with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the country's foreign minister said
* A court in Batumi sentenced in absentia Aslan Abashidze, the former leader of the autonomous region of Adjaria in southwestern Georgia, to 15 years in prison and ordered him to pay $57.6 million in fines to the state
* Russia's coast guards detained a Japanese fishing boat for allegedly poaching in Russian territorial waters in the Pacific, a local border official said
