* Russian defense and diplomatic officials urged Iran to re-impose its moratorium on nuclear research

* Atomstroiexport, a Russian contractor in Iran, said there were no grounds for the suspension of construction work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran

* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov denied media reports that Moscow and Tehran were negotiating sales of S-300 air-defense missile systems but said the Iranian "nuclear file" situation would not affect a contract to deliver Russian Tor-M1 air-defense systems to Iran

* The Austrian ambassador in Moscow said the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, France, and Russia would hold a meeting to discuss the Iranian nuclear problem in Vienna on February 15

* Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn said the Supreme Rada would not annul its decision to dismiss Yuriy Yekhanurov's government

* The Russian Foreign Ministry said the seizure by Ukrainian officials of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's lighthouse in Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea, would harm Russian-Ukrainian relations

* Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said he had not received documents on a lawsuit filed by minority Yukos shareholders with a U.S. court

* The Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry said Russian-German trade had grown by 40% year-on-year in 2005 to stand at $32 billion

* LUKoil Vice President Leonid Fedun said Russia's leading independent oil producer had plans to increase its share of Kazakhstan's oil output to 10%

* A bus collided with a train Friday morning in southern Russia leaving at least 20 people dead

* Prosecutors said a 20-year-old Muscovite had been officially charged with three counts in connection with an attack on a synagogue in central Moscow that left eight people hurt