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A round up of what happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia is open to migrants who come to the country legally and want to make it their permanent place of residence, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday

* Russian authorities are investigating media reports of corruption over the purchase of Daimler AG cars for government purposes, a Federal Protective Service (FSO) spokesman told RIA Novosti

* The alliance of carmakers Peugeot, Citroen and Mitsubishi officially launched production on Friday at its Kaluga Region facility, which has an annual capacity of 125,000 cars

* Research for mineral resources in the Arctic may be hampered by a global trend towards colder weather rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said on Friday

* The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has registered Russia's national Cyrillic domain as .рф, the Russian Press and Communications Ministry said on Friday

* Dmitry Medvedev drove a car through Moscow for the first time as president on Friday

WORLD

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was elected leader of the Party of Regions on Friday.

* Russia continues to view NATO as a major security threat rather than an ally, while Moscow's military doctrine does not reflect reality, the head of the Western military alliance said

* Ukraine's cabinet submitted on Friday a draft 2010 budget to parliament

* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said millions of dollars that his country received by selling its unspent greenhouse gas emission quotas under the Kyoto Protocol had been "plundered"

* Peru will buy eight Russian helicopters to use them in anti-drug efforts, the country's El Commercio paper said on Friday

* Deposed Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev said he has no intention of returning to Kyrgyzstan as president, despite his statement that he has not admitted to his resignation

* The Kyrgyz interim government has vowed to implement comprehensive measures against saboteurs working in the interests of deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his family, an interim deputy prime minister said on Friday

* The United States urges Armenia and Turkey to continue efforts at reconciliation and supports Yerevan's decision to put the process on hold, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia said on Friday

* Deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on Friday he was pressured into writing a resignation statement and the necessary legal procedures have not been completed to make his exit official

* Nord Stream AG and two German environmental organizations have agreed on measures to protect the Baltic Sea, the gas pipeline operator said

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