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Main news of December 21

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours 21.12.2010, Sputnik International

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Senator Bob Corker became the ninth Republican to confirm his vote for the new START arms reduction treaty with Russia, giving it the two-third majority needed for ratification

* Britain and Russia each expelled a diplomat from their embassies in mid-December, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in written statement

* The lower house of the Belarusian parliament ratified all of the documents required to establish a common economic space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and leading Georgian opposition figure Nino Burdzhanadze unveiled a World War II memorial in Moscow

* Leaders of opposition parties and democratic movements in Belarus blamed the authorities on Tuesday for provoking violence in the aftermath of the recent presidential elections

* China called on North Korea to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to monitor the country's nuclear facilities, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said

* Russia and India signed intergovernmental agreements on cooperation in the oil and gas and nuclear energy spheres as well as jointly developing information technologies

RUSSIA

* The lower house of Russia's parliament approved a presidential bill allowing the release of severely ill suspects from custody following a series of high-profile pre-trial deaths

* Russia's Superjet 100 medium-haul passenger aircraft has completed two tests vital for its final international certification, the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft company said

* The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said

* Russian prosecutors have appealed a court ruling acquitting a crippled Russian journalist of defamation charges, the journalist's lawyer said

* Nine Russians were among those detained in Belarus in Sunday's opposition riots, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Minsk, Vadim Gusev, said

BUSINESS

*The Russian government paid the rupee equivalent of $600 million for a stake of approximately 17 percent in telecommunications operator Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL), a joint venture between AFK Sistema and Shyam Group of India, Sistema said

* Russia's gas giant Gazprom has cut its gas output forecast for 2015 to 570-580 billion cubic meters per year due to worsening market conditions, the company said

* Russia's Economic Development Ministry has raised its 2011 forecast for Urals blend oil from $75 to $81 per barrel, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said

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