* A duty fleet control officer said the two Russian fishing boats, which were detained by the Norwegian Coast Guard on October 24 and released October 28 after posting bail, had gone trawling again
* A parliamentary election campaign officially started in Chechen mass media
* Lithuanian national radio said the country had transferred to Russia the flight recorder and the pilot's personal gear and equipment from the Russian fighter that had crashed in Lithuania in September
* The Russian foreign minister said Russia could demand that the Paul Volcker commission, probing into the scandal around the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, disclose the sources of fake documents it had received
* A total of 87 children were hospitalized with intestinal infection in the city of Volgograd 600 miles southeast of Moscow
