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19:59 GMT 19.01.2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Britain has for the first time admitted it was spying when Russia’s state security service, the FSB, accused British diplomats of using a transceiver hidden inside a rock on a Moscow street.

*The political unrest that swept the Arab world last year, which became known as the “Arab spring”, has become the most significant event in the struggle for civil rights, comparable to the downfall of Soviet Union in 1991, the human right organization Freedom House said in a report.

RUSSIA

*A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Valadimir Popovkin, said.

*Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday promised to consider lifting the current ban on the sale and advertisement of beer at football stadiums in Russia, which will host the World Cup championship in 2018.

*A U.S. court has issued a summons to the woman who adopted a seven-year-old Russian boy and later put him on a plane back to Moscow with a note saying that she didn't want him anymore.

*Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said.

BUSINESS

*Bahrain Air is in talks with Russia on the purchase of up to five Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ) regional passenger aircraft.

*Japanese car maker Honda Motor Co is in talks to build a car plant in the town of Dzerzhinsk near Nizhny Novgorod, Dzerzhinsk's Mayor Viktor Sopin said.

*Russia’s presidential administration is placing a tender on the delivery of three modified Tu-214 passenger jets worth about 9 bln rubles ($280 mln).

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