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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected recent comments by British Prime Minister David Cameron that Russia has changed its stance on Syria.

*A Syrian Air Force MiG-21 fighter pilot has flown his aircraft to Jordan and landed at an air force base, Jordan's Minister of Media Affairs and Communications Samih Maaytah said, adding the pilot asked the Jordanian government for political asylum.

*The long-sought "Belarusian list" of Polish officers executed in 1940 by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, has been found in Russia’s state military archives, Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

*Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he felt "sorry" for jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and will seek a "humane decision" in her case.

 

RUSSIA

*The Russian ship MV Alaed, carrying a cargo of overhauled Russian-made Mil Mi-25 helicopter gunships bound for Syria, will dock in the north Russian port of Murmansk on Saturday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.

*The Sukhoi Superjet airliner that crashed in Indonesia last month had no apparent technical problems, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail Pogosyan said.

*Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev confirmed that by 2020 Russia would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent in comparison with 1990.

*An unusual life interpretation of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most famous U.S. presidents, made by Russian film director Timur Bekmambetov and his team was released in cinemas worldwide.

 

BUSINESS

*Russia will take anti-crisis measures in the event oil falls to $80 a barrel, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

*Russian oil giant Rosneft signed several agreements with Italy's Eni and Norway's Statoil to set up joint ventures for development of offshore projects in the Barents and Black seas.

*The government's fuel and energy commission will consider returning the license to develop the Trebs, Titov oilfields in the Arctic to a joint venture between the country’s largest private company LUKoil and mid-sized oil firm Bashneft, LUKoil head Vagit Alekperov said.



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