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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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* Belarusian authorities have discontinued the mandate of the OSCE office in the country's capital Minsk after Europe's top rights watchdog lambasted December's presidential elections, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported

* Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was officially delivered two charges of power abuse

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* A deputy head of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot, Vladimir Smirnov, has been fired following flight chaos in the Russian capital's airports last weekend, an Aeroflot spokesman said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested that the Moscow Region governor, the energy minister and the head of the holding company MRSK managing energy sector companies go to blacked out districts to mark New Year with their dwellers

* Some 70 people were detained in downtown Moscow on Triumfalnaya Square for an attempt to hold an unauthorized rally, Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said

* The Khimki Court outside Moscow sanctioned the arrest of two more figures on charges of attacking a local ecological environmentalist

* Russia's Far East region of Chukotka, near the border with Alaska, has become the first Russian region to bring in 2011

* The Russian judiciary system is completely independent from the positions of the Russian Federation and any other foreign government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* The 14-year prison term imposed on former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, shows a politically motivated trial and deep-seated problems with Russia's justice system, Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization said

* The lawyers of ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev, recently sentenced by a Moscow court to 14 years for embezzlement and money laundering, have appealed the sentence

* Moscow's airports, where thousands of stranded passengers spent several agonizing days, have returned to normal operation, a source in the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) said

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