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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

 

WORLD

 

* The U.S. Senate voted to begin a debate of the START arms reduction treaty with Russia

* A criminal case into the inappropriate use of government funds has been opened against Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister and current opposition leader said

* Egypt has reopened its Sharm El Sheikh beaches after shark attacks that killed one and injured at least four, national media said

 * The UN Security Council adopted three resolutions to end sanctions imposed against Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era

 

 

RUSSIA

* At least 800 people were arrested in central Moscow as police held a massive operation to prevent new race-hate riots

* An Islamic religious leader was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a police source said

* Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin pledged that police would continue to clamp down hard on any attempts to stage race riots in the capital

* The European Court of Human Rights has given Russia a deadline before March 16 to provide information on the murder case of poisoned former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko

* Moscow's Khamovniki district court postponed the announcement of the verdict in the new trial of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev until December 27

*The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying a new expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan

* Russia's second largest bank, state-controlled VTB, hopes to acquire a controlling stake or even 100% of Bank of Moscow no later than the first half of 2011, VTB head Andrei Kostin said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has approved a draft agreement on the creation of a coordinated macroeconomic policy between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, a decree posted on the Kremlin's website said

* Extremist youth groups exist in almost all of Russia's regions, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said

* Financial problems have forced a poultry farm in central Russia's Kursk region to slaughter 500,000 hens and chickens, the head of the farm said

 

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