* As of 2:00 p.m. Moscow time (11:00 a.m. GMT), 35% of registered voters had come to the polls in separatist Abkhazia, crossing the electoral threshold of 25%, the republican central electoral commission said
* Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili condemned the parliamentary elections in the breakaway region of Abkhazia as illegitimate
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law on ratifying the Russia-EU readmission agreement aimed at fighting illegal migration
* Georgia will increase its military contingent in Iraq and send troops to Afghanistan to participate in the international peacekeeping effort, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said
* One Russian company worker was killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Algeria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said
* Iran is prepared for negotiations without preconditions will all interested parties on its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said
* Three construction workers were recovered alive from a non-residential building under reconstruction in central Moscow that had collapsed Saturday night, the emergencies ministry said
* A ten-year-old child has died and three persons could be trapped beneath snow after an avalanche hit Krasnaya Polyana, a famous ski resort near the Black Sea city of Sochi, the emergencies ministry said
