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19:45 GMT 21.09.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia has nominated film director Fyodor Bondarchuk’s movie “Stalingrad” for the US Academy Awards, a member of Russia’s Oscars nomination commission has said.

* A militant leader was shot to death in Russia’s violence-plagued North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, police said.

* North Korea’s coast guard has opened fire on a Russian fishing vessel in the Sea of Japan, a spokesman for the fishing company said.

WORLD

* Russia is in theory prepared to change its stance on Syria if it finds out that Syrian President Bashar Assad is “cheating,” the Kremlin chief of staff said Saturday.

* A top Russian official warned Ukraine on Saturday that its trade balance will have a deficit of up to $15 billion if the ex-Soviet nation signs a free trade agreement with the European Union.

* Tajikistan’s strongman leader who has iron-fistedly ruled the impoverished ex-Soviet nation for almost two decades was fielded for reelection on Saturday by a political youth group

* A US Senator and leading voice on the tangled and thorny topic of international child adoption said this week Russia is doing “a great disservice to itself” by raising parentless children in institutions, but expressed little hope that Moscow’s ban on adoptions of Russian children by American parents would be lifted anytime soon.

SPORTS

* Sebastian Vettel continued his blistering pace Saturday as he stormed to pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix, while his championship rival Fernando Alonso could manage only seventh place

* Ural Yekaterinburg held on to clinch a 1-1 draw against Krylya Sovetov Samara in the Russian Premier League on Saturday despite coming under heavy pressure late in the game.

* Alexander Samedov’s penalty gave Lokomotiv Moscow a 3-1 win away to Dynamo Moscow on Saturday, but the derby was overshadowed by controversial refereeing and the poor state of the pitch.