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19:59 GMT 13.10.2009

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The head of a Georgian opposition party on Tuesday urged Washington to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the financial involvement of some U.S. officials in "bankrolling" Georgia's 2003 "rose revolution"

* Under the existing contracts with Gazprom, Ukraine will be unable to guarantee gas supplies from Russia to Europe during the 2010-11 winter season, the Ukrainian president's point man on energy security said

* Hamas accused Egypt on Tuesday of torturing to death in jail the brother of one of the group's senior officials

* The vice speaker of Georgia's parliament dismissed on Tuesday the Russian security service's allegation that Georgia has been supporting terrorists in the Caucasus, calling it a "provocation"

* Famous Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom has been appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his commitment to the rights of children around the world

RUSSIA

* Russia will ask Finland for extradition of a Russian woman's former husband, accused by a Russian court of kidnapping his son, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor's Office said

* A Moscow court rejected on Tuesday a libel suit filed against a newspaper by the grandson of dictator Joseph Stalin

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Kazakhstan on Thursday for a two-day working visit, the Kremlin said in a statement

* President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to his official country residence on Tuesday, hailing improving ties between Moscow and Washington

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet his Czech counterpart, Vaclav Klaus, in Moscow on Wednesday for talks on bilateral trade, energy cooperation and European security

* Russia's state-controlled civilian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom rejected on Tuesday French media reports claiming that spent fuel from French power plants was being stored at an open-air site in Siberia

* Russia and China can intensify their political dialog and economic cooperation, which have withstood the economic crisis, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday at the end of his visit to China

* Russia and the U.S. will continue talks on a new missile defense system, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday after talks with the U.S. secretary of state

* Russia's security chief accused Georgia on Tuesday of supporting terrorist groups in Russia's North Caucasus

* A court in Finland has given an 18-month suspended sentence to a Russian mother accused of kidnapping her own son, who has both Russian and Finnish citizenship, the woman's Finnish lawyer said

* A parliamentary committee looking into August's accident at a Siberian hydropower plant has blamed staff and management for the tragedy

* Russia's federal space agency has started work to design a new carrier rocket to orbit manned flights from a new space center in the country's Far East, the head of the agency said

* U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after talks with Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday that neither country is seeking to impose sanctions against Iran under the current circumstances

* The militants who organized an assassination attempt on the president of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia have been killed, the head of the Federal Security Service said

BUSINESS

* Russia and China have initialed a framework agreement on natural gas supplies from West Siberia, the Russian Far East, and offshore Sakhalin fields to China, the head of Gazprom said

* Contracts worth $3.5 billion have been signed at a Russian-Chinese business forum, a Russian deputy prime minister said

CULTURE

* The director of Moscow's largest museum of European fine arts has been awarded the international Liberty Prize for advancing Russian-U.S. cultural ties