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Main news of December 27
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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Russia should first of all turn to Georgia if it wants to join the World Trade Organization, the Georgian foreign minister said

* The Pechyorsky Court of Kiev officially sanctioned the arrest of former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who is suspected of abusing his power of office

* The Kazakh Central Election Commission approved the holding of a referendum on extending President Nursultan Nazarbayev's term of office until 2020, the commission's head, Kuandyk Turgankulov, said

RUSSIA

* Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were declared guilty at the culmination of their second new trial in Moscow's Khamovniki Court

* The situation in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, where thousands of passengers have become stranded since Saturday, is gradually heating up, an airport employee said

* President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to carry out a clear and understandable migration policy in Russia, but opposed the formation of "Chinatowns" in the country

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to amend national programs on patriotic upbringing among youth to prevent possible interethnic conflicts in the future

* Cultivation of patriotism in today's troubled Russian society will help curb outbursts of interethnic violence across the country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* The Russian government should inflict harsher residence registration rules on migrants who violate local customs and regulations, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

* President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law on the ratification of a Russian-French intergovernmental agreement on the transit of military equipment and personnel from Afghanistan via Russia, the Kremlin said

* Flights to and from Moscow's airports will be almost entirely restored over the next two days, Alexander Neradko, head of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law a new bill easing work permit regulations for highly qualified foreign specialists in Russia, including those employed at the Skolkovo hi-tech research hub, the Kremlin said

* Russian police detained the suspected organizers and attackers suspected of being behind the assault on Khimki forest ecology activist and journalist Konstantin Fetisov

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