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20:00 GMT 24.10.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced support Thursday for his Kazakh counterpart’s proposal to dissolve the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), but said such a move should be gradual and well thought over

* Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that it would be impossible for Ukraine to join a Moscow-led Customs Union if the country signs an association agreement with the European Union

* Police in the southern Russian city of Volgograd said Thursday they are searching for a person who threw a Molotov cocktail at a local mosque days after a deadly suicide bombing linked to an Islamist insurgency happened in the city

* A Russian man was abducted by Syrian rebels who want to swap him for a detained ally, according to a video appeal on YouTube whose authenticity was being verified by Russian diplomats

* Russian investigators will not open a criminal case into allegations by jailed feminist punk rocker Nadezhda Tolokonnikova that a prison official threatened to kill her, a spokesperson for the Investigative Committee said

* Moscow police have detained a man suspected of defrauding 500 people of around 50 million rubles ($1.51 million) in a pyramid scheme, the Russian Interior Ministry said

* Moscow City Hall has authorized a march in support of people on trial over last year’s clashes with police at an anti-Kremlin rally, Russian opposition activists said

* Russian police have detained mixed martial arts star Alexander Emelianenko on suspicion of beating up a man in a Moscow cafe, an official said

WORLD

* Defense lawyers for activists held on board a Greenpeace ship last month will insist that all charges leveled by the Russian authorities against them be dropped, the organization’s spokesman said Thursday after the original piracy charges were reduced to hooliganism

* WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko announced Thursday that he will run for president of Ukraine in 2015

* Tehran has halted enrichment of uranium to 20 percent because it has enough stocks at the moment, a senior lawmaker was cited as saying by the Iranian parliament’s website

* Dutch police announced Thursday that they have arrested a man suspected of breaking into a Russian embassy apartment in The Hague last week, in one of a series of recent incidents heightening political tensions between Russia and the Netherlands