* Russia and Angola signed 10 economic cooperation and security agreements following presidential talks in Moscow
* Gazprom will invest $100 million on exploration and production of oil and gas in Angola, Alexander Medvedev, the Russian energy giant's deputy board chairman, said
* Gazexport intends to increase natural gas supplies to Britain to 12 billion cubic meters per year by 2010-2012, Russian energy giant Gazprom's export arm said
* Georgia's Interior Ministry categorically denied claims by authorities in the breakaway region of South Ossetia that they have eliminated a Georgian terrorist group attempting to infiltrate its territory
* Switzerland's federal court banned the trading firm Noga from impounding Russian property to secure the repayment of debts under barter oil deals struck with Russia's government in the early 1990s
* Top officials of Russia's aircraft industry announced plans at Airshow China 2006, the country's largest air show, to secure major contracts to sell cargo planes to Chinese companies
* Georgia needs no mediators to end the crisis in relations with Russia, the South Caucasus country's Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said, in advance of his official visit to Moscow
