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Main news of December 10

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The outgoing year of 2010 was successful for the post-soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said

* A rival site for WikiLeaks will be set by former insiders of the whistleblowing website, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev adopted in the Kremlin a two-year action plan to enhance bilateral relations

RUSSIA

* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expressed optimism over the future of Russian-Belarusian relations

* The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing the incident said

* Russia opposes the renewal of the Kyoto protocol and will not sign an extension to the climate treaty, Russian envoy Alexander Bedritsky said

* A top Kremlin official said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev intends to seek re-election in the 2012 presidential poll

* Two Russian journalists, Mikhail Beketov and Olga Bobrova won awards on Friday from the Austrian branch of the Reporters Without Borders organization

* People charged with minor administrative offences face being barred from organizing or attending rallies, after Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev signed off a revised law on protest meetings

BUSINESS

* Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a compromise on the issue of export duties on Russian round timber is possible after the country joins the World Trade Organization

* Russia's state-run United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and STX Finland have formed a joint venture to build icebreakers, Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, following an agreement signed by the firms

* Severstal, India's NMDC sign deal to build $2 bln steel plant in India

DEFENSE

* The lower house of Russia's parliament, the State Duma, ratified intergovernmental agreements with France and Spain on military transits to Afghanistan

SPORTS

* Russian tennis player Marta Sirotkina secured her place in finals of the International Tennis Federation tournament in Dubai after beating German Julia Babilon

SOCIETY

* A Russian journalist who was savagely beaten in 2008 has been cleared on appeal of defamation charges after widespread public outcry

CRIME

* Two Moscow police officers have been charged with kidnapping a businessman and demanding a million dollar ransom for his release

* Russia has sent Ukraine an extradition request for two suspects believed to have been involved in the brutal murder of 12 people in a village in southern Russia, the spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said

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