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Main News of December 11

19:59 GMT 11.12.2013

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Barriers made of huge chunks of ice and iron rods re-emerged in the heart of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, hours after previous barricades were dismantled in a police crackdown

* Ukrainian opposition leaders rejected talks proposed by the government in a bid to resolve the current political crisis

* US President Barack Obama is unlikely to attend February’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, but could send a delegation headed by “former advisors,” US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul suggested

RUSSIA

* The last shipment of Russian uranium from nuclear warheads converted to reactor fuel arrived in Baltimore by sea on Tuesday, ending a program that has provided 10 percent of all US electricity over the past 15 years

* A senior government minister warned that Russia could retaliate with a nuclear strike if a new US military strategy threatened its security

* Nearly a million people in Russia have committed suicide during the last two decades, an eminent psychiatrist said, but the national suicide rate is falling

* A grassroots anti-plagiarism group said that the head of the Kremlin’s newly created anti-corruption department ripped off a significant portion of his doctoral thesis

BUSINESS

* The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan has approved a deal to sell the country’s debt-ridden natural gas monopoly to Russia’s state energy company Gazprom for $1

* Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev is creating a new oil company through acquisitions and consolidation, according to a Russian newspaper report

* Russia unveiled a sign that will be used to represent the ruble alongside other major world currencies