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19:59 GMT 10.01.2013

WORLD

* Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to parliament a draft law on Russia’s formal objection to Bolivia’s reservation to the UN drugs convention seeking an exception for the use of coca leaf

* A Russian-owned Mil Mi-26 transport helicopter operating on contract to the UN in South Sudan was hit by gunfire recently but the crew was not hurt, the aircraft's operator UTair said

* One of the two reactors of Romania’s Cernavoda NPP was shut down automatically by the safety system for unknown reasons late on Wednesday, the RL news portal reported

* South Sudan has started to withdraw its troops from the border with Sudan in accordance with agreements signed over the weekend, a high-ranking Sudanese military official said

RUSSIA

* A Kremlin spokesman said a Russian-US adoption agreement would remain in force until year’s end, but earlier comments by the same official, as well as the Foreign Ministry, suggest this will do little if anything to lift a Russian adoption ban imposed on Americans late last year

* Russian President Vladimir Putin called for his country to boost its production and design of high-tech ships, in comments at a naming ceremony for a new oil-rig supply vessel with icebreaking capability

* A Russian opposition activist who was brutally beaten early said he was certain the attack was linked to his anti-corruption efforts

* Russia’s economy is among the least free in the world, according to an index published on Thursday

* A Russian news website has provoked a furore after publishing what it claimed was an appeal from a Russian teenage orphan whose adoption by a US family was prevented by a new law banning adoptions by Americans

BUSINESS

* Russian energy giant Gazprom and Russia’s largest independent gas producer Novatek have signed a deal to jointly produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic, the companies said

SCIENCE

* Russian researchers obtained the first sample of transparent ice from the water of a unique sub-glacial lake in Antarctica during drilling operations, Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported

CRIME

* Local police have asked a Moscow court to free an Uzbek migrant accused of attacking a 12-year-old boy, the press service for the Interior Ministry's Moscow branch said

DEFENSE

* Russia’s first Borey class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the Yury Dolgoruky, was officially commissioned into the Russian Navy