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WORLD

* A UN commission has found serious human rights violations have been committed by Syria's opposition movement, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on his Twitter microblog

* The European Union is working on a new set of sanctions against Syria, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said

* Abkhaz Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Chirikba accused the United States of blackmailing countries whose governments were ready to recognize the breakaway Georgian republic as an independent state, and therefore preventing them from doing so

RUSSIA

* Famous blogger and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny is the only Russian who has made it onto Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

* The report by a delegation of monitors from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Russia’s presidential elections is realistic while its criticism is logical, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the PACE, Alexander Pochinok said

BUSINESS

* Russian oil giant Rosneft plans to boost hydrocarbon output by 43 percent to 3.7 million barrels per day by 2020, Rosneft head Eduard Khudainatov said

SPORTS

* Russia announced that foreign athletes may not exceed 25 percent of a professional sports club's workforce