* The sixth congress of the pro-presidential United Russia party was held in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

* The Chinese Foreign Ministry agreed for a team of Russian experts to study the accident site near the chemical plant in Jilin following a spill of chemicals into the Amur River's tributary Songhua

* Kazakh Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov said Kazakhstan was going to deploy a group of space satellites

* The Baltic Assembly adopted Saturday a resolution on the risks of the construction of North European Gas Pipeline, a joint Russian-German project, under the Baltic Sea

* A group of PACE representatives arrived in Chechnya prior to parliamentary elections due on November 27

* A parliamentary election campaign was officially launched in Ukraine

* Georgy Baramidze, the Georgian state minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said Georgia's national military strategy would enable the country in 2006 to advance from the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) to the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP)

* Wang Jianhua, the first secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Lianyungang city committee, said China expected Russia to build the third and fourth energy units of the Tianwan nuclear power station.