* Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said rescuers identified a likely location of the flight recorders from a plane that crashed into the Black Sea
* Russia's chief doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, banned imports of popular Georgian sparkling mineral water Borjomi
* Georgia's Agriculture Minister Mikhail Svimonishvili said that the Russian ban on Borjomi imports amounted to a trade war
* A Moscow jury acquitted Friday all three defendants in the case of Paul Klebnikov, the editor of Forbes Russia magazine, who was murdered in July 2004
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would seek to enrich uranium to industrial level
* Transneft said it would complete within a month a feasibility study on rerouting a section of the East Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline outside Lake Baikal's catchment area
* Officials in Kiev said Ukraine may consider withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose organization of 12 former Soviet republics
* Russia's main stock market, the RTS, and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) suspended trading in preferred shares in state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft (RTS: TRNFP) following a district court ruling freezing the shares
* Gen. Alexander Baranov, commander of Russia's North Caucasus troops, said the first echelon of Russian servicemen stationed in Georgia would be formed by May 13-14 and leave on May 15 under a bilateral pullout agreement
* Russia's Supreme Court quashed a jury's non-guilty verdict on two federal servicemen suspected of killing civilians in Chechnya, following a Constitutional Court ruling that major crimes committed in Chechnya be examined by courts martial, not jurors
* The Russian Space Agency said Iranian-born American businesswoman Anousheh Ansarihad been chosen as backup to Japan's Daisuke Enomoto, slated to become the world's fourth space tourist when he flies to the International Space Station this fall on board a Soyuz carrier rocket
