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Main News Of January 22

19:59 GMT 22.01.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent a letter to jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, saying the US supports her “immediate release,” Tymoshenko’s party said

* Lithuanian law enforcement agencies have frozen several bank accounts as part of a probe into the alleged embezzlement of public funds uncovered by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian pretrial detention prison in 2009, a Lithuanian prosecutor said

RUSSIA

* A total of 42 militants were killed in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya last year, the republic’s Interior Ministry said

* Russia sent two planes to the Middle East to fly about 80 of its nationals out of Syria, according to the Emergency Situations Ministry and diplomats in the region

* Russian and Iranian police chiefs have signed an agreement to cooperate in combating crime, the Russian Interior Ministry said

* Supporters and opponents of a proposed federal law banning gay propaganda clashed on Tuesday outside the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament

POLITICS

* Long before US President Barack Obama was publicly sworn into office for his second term on Monday, Charlene Shariff was out on the streets of Washington working the crowd

ART&LIVING

* Prima ballerina Galina Stepanenko will be in charge of Bolshoi ballet until Artistic Director Sergei Filin recovers from last week’s acid attack, Bolshoi Theater’s spokeswoman said

CRIME

* A 20-year-old Russian woman has been rescued from sex slavery in Bahrain, the Russian Interior Ministry press service said

BUSINESS

* The growth in Russia’s hydrocarbons reserves based on geological surveys in 2012 exceeded production, Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi said

* Russia’s third largest oil firm TNK-BP and US energy services major Halliburton have signed a deal for a pilot oil drilling project at the licensed Em-Egovskoye field in West Siberia, TNK-BP Operations and Asset Management Vice-President Oleg Mikhailov said