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Main news of December 12

20:59 GMT 12.12.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Moscow police denied earlier reports that one person, injured in Saturday's clash in downtown Moscow, died in hospital

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will tackle questions from the nation during his annual question-and-answer session on December 16

* Russia was tracking the killers of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but was warned off by Britain, which said the situation was under control, The Guardian reported on Sunday referring to WikiLeaks cables.

* Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Finnish President Tarja Halonen were among the first passengers on a new rail service between Helsinki and St. Petersburg

* One opposition leader and several other activists have been detained after holding a rally to protest against constitutional abuses in central Moscow

WORLD

* The crash of a Polish presidential plane in Western Russia this April was caused by 12 factors

* One person was killed and two slightly injured when two cars exploded with an interval of ten minutes in downtown Stockholm

* Russia and Japan have agreed on building a joint liquefied natural gas plant in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri reported

* Russia will start building Turkey's first nuclear power plant estimated at $20 billion in 2013, Russian ambassador to Ankara Vladimir Ivanovsky said

* A new confinement to encase reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Power Plant, the scene of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, will be built by 2015, Ukrainian Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha said

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