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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukraine’s Supreme Commercial Court upheld an earlier ruling clearing the Ukrainian military of any liability for the crash of a Russian Tu-154 passenger jet in 2001, which it allegedly shot down by mistake

* A Kazakhstan court handed down a life sentence on Tuesday to a former border guard convicted of killing 15 people last summer at an outpost near the Kazakh-Chinese border

* The government of Uzbekistan has extended tax breaks for enterprises with private foreign investment, in a decree published on Tuesday

* Colorado has become the second US state to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use

RUSSIA

* Renowned Russian opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya passed away at the age of 86, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center press service said

* The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Russian army will no longer rent the Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan

* More than 30,000 Muscovites will be unable to holiday abroad over the New Year holidays due to a travel ban imposed on debtors, the city bailiffs service said

* The Russian government has appointed Konstantin Busygin as the new head of the Izhmash small-arms factory to lead its amalgamation with gun-maker Izhmekh under the Kalashnikov brand, Deputy-Premier Dmitry Rogozin said

* Russian-British oil joint venture TNK-BP has won a tender to buy one of Russia’s last three major unexploited Soviet-era oilfields in a deal likely to benefit oil giant Rosneft, in auction results announced by the Federal Subsoil Agency

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