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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said the country cannot unilaterally annul the gas contract with Russia, but will push for a revision.

*Russia will fulfill a contract to deliver 21 helicopters to Afghanistan in the first half of the year, the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service said.

*More than 400 people have been killed in Syria in just the two weeks since Arab League observers were deployed in the country in late December as part of a peace plan to end months of bloodshed there, United Nations political chief B. Lynn Pascoe said.

*An Iranian scientist who died in a car bomb explosion in the capital Tehran was the deputy director of the country's largest uranium enrichment plant.

*Mitt Romney took a crucial step closer to challenging Barack Obama in the 2012 U.S. presidential elections, winning the Republican primary elections in New Hampshire on Tuesday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

*The United States hopes its new ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul will make serious efforts to further deepen bilateral relations, U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton said at McFaul’s swearing-in ceremony.

*UK Member of Parliament Denis MacShane called for barring a number of Russian officials from attending the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

RUSSIA

*Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth between January 14 and 16, possibly some place in the Indian Ocean, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.

*Moscow hotel room rates are the highest in Europe, Hotel.info online booking service said in a survey after comparing more than 210,000 facilities worldwide.

*A criminal case has been opened into ballot rigging in the Central Russian city of Vladimir where about 6,000 “dead souls” voted in the December 4 parliamentary elections.

*The leader of the Communist Party of Russia, Gennady Zyuganov, said he would pardon former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky if elected president.

*Relatives of Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team, which was almost wiped out in an air crash in September 2011, are to demand a new probe into the tragedy.

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