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RUSSIA

* Unidentified attackers killed a senior police officer in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the regional prosecutor's office said

* Russia's Nitol Solar that makes silicon for the solar industry could be valued at $1 billion during an initial public offering (IPO) planned on the London Stock Exchange, The Financial Times said

* Seven people died and four others were injured in a fire at the Elektropult electrical factory in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia, the regional emergencies center said

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* Mikheil Saakashvili was officially announced as the winner of Georgia's January 5 presidential elections, following the results finally announced by the central election commission

* About 15,000 activists of the united Georgian opposition gathered in Tbilisi to protest the January 5 presidential election results in the South Caucasus republic

* Georgia's ex-defense minister and opposition leader, Irakly Okruashvili, has gone on a hunger strike in French jail to protest the January 5 presidential vote results in the South Caucasus republic, Okruashvili's lawyer told Rustavi-2 TV company

* Iran will clear up all of the UN nuclear watchdog's remaining questions concerning its controversial nuclear program by late February, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said

* The fourth Russian Winter Festival opened on London's Trafalgar Square