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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

US-RUSSIAN SPY SCANDAL

- * Peruvian Foreign Minister Garcia Belaunde has refused to comment on a journalist with dual U.S.-Peruvian citizenship, who was deported from the United States to Russia on a spy swap.

- * British authorities are considering the urgent cancelation of UK citizenship from two convicted Russian spies in the United States, a source at the UK Border Agency said

- * U.S. spy Igor Sutyagin, one of the four participants of the U.S.-Russian spy swap deal, may seek political asylum in Britain, International Intelligence Limited' s CEO, Alex Bomberg said

- * Ten convicted Russian spies deported from the United States arrived at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport on a Russian Emergency Ministry plane, the airport said

- * Ten convicted Russian spies were flown out of Vienna on a Russian plane after arriving on a charter flight from New York, a Russian special service source said.

- * Russian diplomatic missions abroad will help the children of the Russian citizens convicted of spying in the United States return to their parents, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said

- * Convicted Russian spy Vicky Pelaez will go home to Peru after her deportation from the United States to Russia, her lawyer said in comments reported on Peruvian RPP radio

- * The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that 10 Russian spy suspects in New York are being deported from the United States in exchange for the release of four Russian prisoners convicted of spying for the United States

- * Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on pardoning four individuals imprisoned in Russia for alleged work for Western intelligence agencies

WORLD

* The Russian Navy has extended the convoy route in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden to 380 kilometers, the Pacific Fleet commander said

* The Severomorsk guided-missile destroyer from Russia's Northern Fleet set sail for British shores to team up with NATO warships in an international naval exercise in the North Atlantic, a fleet spokesman said

RUSSIA

* The troops of the Siberian military district have accomplished all set tasks during large-scale Vostok-2010 military drills and began the redeployment to their permanent bases

* The troubled Bulava ballistic missile, which has not yet been adopted for service with the Russian Navy, falls under arms control regime stipulated by the new strategic arms reduction pact

 

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