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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The European Union will seek explanations from Baku on why it violated agreements with Hungary on the extradition of a Azerbaijani national, convicted for murder, a spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief said.

*Nuclear fuel rods will be loaded into the first reactor of India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the next few days, Alexander Lokshin, First Deputy General Director of Rosatom, said.

*The parliament of Kyrgyzstan elected Zhontoro Satybaldiyev as the country’s new prime minister with a majority of votes.

 

RUSSIA

*Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he was “staying out” of the controversial case of three members of the Pussy Riot punk group jailed last month over a protest in Moscow’s largest cathedral.

*Russia lost one position and was ranked 67th out of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2012-2013 Global Competitiveness Report published.

 

BUSINESS

*Gazprom shares fell 2 percent with its capitalization down $2 billion Wednesday on news of an EU probe over concerns that the Russian natural gas giant might be hindering competition in Central and Eastern European gas markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules.

 

 

 

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