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20:59 GMT 28.01.2011

A roundup of what happened in the past 24 hours.

WORLD

*A fire broke out on Friday near Tahrir Square in central Cairo, where thousands of Egyptians have been protesting since Tuesday, and is currently threatening the world-famous Egyptian Museum

*The anti-governmental protests in Egypt are driven by radicals who seek power, a senior Russian lawmaker said

*Egyptian authorities imposed a nationwide curfew amid ongoing protests, Egyptian TV channels reported

*A Polish air force spokesman dismissed Russian media reports that pilots of the Polish presidential plane, which crashed last year in western Russia, acted according to a secret instruction

*At least one person was killed and dozens were injured in Cairo on Friday as protesters took to the streets across Egypt calling for President Hosni Mubarak to resign

*The Russian Embassy in Minsk criticized the Belarusian authorities for keeping two alleged Russian protesters in custody for a month without evidence, a spokesman said

*North Korea will not halt its nuclear activities as long as there is a confrontation with the United States, Kim Jong-nam, the country's leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son who resides in Macao, said in an interview with a Japanese newspaper

*Russia shares the dissatisfaction expressed by the other members of the Iran Six group of negotiators on the Iranian nuclear issue after the latest round of talks, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said

*Russian diplomats will be constantly monitoring how adopted Russian children in Alaska live with their adoptive American families

*The president of Ukraine says reports that his country deviates from democratic processes are groundless and pledges to keep fighting against corruption among high-ranking state officials

RUSSIA

*The global arms trade runs to billions of dollars, but few such deals attract as much media attention as Brazil's recent tender, for the purchase of 36 combat aircraft which includes an agreement on production of another 84 planes under license

*Amur tigress Serga, who was given a tracking collar by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin two years ago, has given birth to three cubs, researchers said

*The CIS interstate aviation regulator (MAK) has decided to award a Type Certificate to a new commercial airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100, MAK said in a statement

*Moscow will prepare proposals on the creation of a global financial center within three to four months, Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said

*The Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty could enter into force in early February, President Dmitry Medvedev said after signing off on the new START treaty ratification documents

*The Russian Ministry of Culture will redefine the status of St. Petersburg with only the city center being declared historical, Mayor Valentina Matviyenko said

*Moscow traffic police denied reports that some evidence was excluded from the records of a fatal accident involving the Russian president's representative to parliament

*Russian state-run companies should increase investment in hi-tech technologies and step up cooperation with the scientific research sector, a presidential aide said

*The EU special representative for the South Caucasus has said he is "concerned" that Georgian refugees are not returning to their homes in the Kodori Valley in eastern Abkhazia

*The Russian government will not interfere in a conflict between BP, which has recently struck a $16 billion deal with the country's top oil firm Rosneft, and its local joint venture TNK-BP, which claims that the deal broke a shareholder agreement between the partners, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

*Reports that a resident of Russia's southern Stavropol region was responsible for the deadly January 24 blast at a Moscow airport are false, a police source told RIA Novosti

*Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich has called for more cooperation between large businesses and science

*President Dmitry Medvedev identified key priorities of his ambitious plan to modernize Russia in a speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort town of Davos