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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 03.03.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has suspended his membership in his Party of Regions and gave his powers to his party colleague Nikolai Azarov, a party member said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to visit Venezuela in March, President Hugo Chavez said at a cabinet meeting

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered a second political defeat in under a month when parliament voted for the dismissal of her government

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose government was dismissed by parliament on Wednesday, will take a leave of absence, handing duties to her first deputy, Oleksandr Turchynov, a Ukrainian news agency reported

* Nino Burdzhanadze, a leading Georgian opposition figure, has flown to Moscow to seek to improve ties broken off after the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, a Georgian news agency reported

* A Russian emergencies ministry's Il-76 plane took off on Wednesday for quake-hit Chile carrying some 28 tons of humanitarian cargo

* Baghdad appointed its ambassador to Kuwait in the first such move since the 1990 Iraqi invasion to the country, the country's deputy foreign minister told an Iraqi TV channel

* The number of people killed in a devastating earthquake in Chile over has risen to 795, the country's president told the Mercurio paper

RUSSIA

* Several members of the Russian liberal opposition party Yabloko were detained after attempting to stage a protest in front of the Central Election Commission building in central Moscow, police said

* Russia will complete the construction of chemical weapon destruction plants in 2011 and will destroy all chemical weapons stockpiles by 2012, a government official said

* The Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced an amphibious landing of troops on the coast of Abkhazia as a nearby NATO vessel observed, a Russian Navy source said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has allocated 1.1 billion rubles ($37 million) to develop supercomputer technologies in Russia

BUSINESS

* Russia's government has approved a project to produce hybrid cars running both on conventional gasoline- as well as liquified natural gas-engines, Russian billionaire and project author Mikhail Prokhorov said

SPORTS

* Russia's head football coach Guus Hiddink ended his final match at an away friendly game against Hungary in the city of Gyor with a 1-1 draw

* Russian Olympic Committee head Leonid Tyagachev resigned on Wednesday, two days after President Dmitry Medvedev said senior sports officials should quit over the country's poor showing at the Winter Olympics

* Fabio Capello is being lined up to replace Guus Hiddink as trainer of the Russian national side after this summer's World Cup, a Russian paper claimed

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