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20:01 GMT 10.01.2014

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The leaders of Syria’s main opposition group are planning to meet in Paris on January 12 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

* Ukraine said that it has secured an option to borrow $6 billion from Russian banks to help develop its atomic energy industry.

* Estonia granted a burial with full military honors to a decorated Nazi SS veteran who distinguished himself in combat against Soviet troops during World War II.

* The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is sending dozens of its personnel to Russia to help secure the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi from possible terror attacks, its director told reporters.

* Turkmenistan’s president has, in a major shake-up of the Central Asian nation’s banking industry, fired a spate of top officials at a several lenders.

RUSSIA

* Russian officials, who are banned from accepting expensive presents as part of the country’s anti-corruption drive, will now have a chance to buy them out under a new government regulation.

* Former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has visited Israel where several of his business associates from dismantled oil giant Yukos are living, according to media reports.

* A fisheries official in Moscow lashed out at the seizure of a Russian trawler by Senegal’s authorities, calling it an act of economic warfare over natural resources perpetrated by foreign powers.

* People living in more than a third of Russia’s small towns and villages have no access to the Internet, a new government study shows.

* A leftist activist who fled Russia after facing prosecution over clashes between opposition supporters and police said that the charges against her have been dropped.

* A Moscow artist was released on parole after spending more than two years in jail for a bribery conviction that followed his move to a Russian village in a bid to bring culture to the provinces.

DEFENSE

* A naval task force led by Russia’s largest warship has passed through the English Channel on its way to the Mediterranean, a Russian military official said.

SECURITY

* Russian police have detained six people suspected of involvement in a recent deadly car bombing in Russia’s restive North Caucasus, investigators said.

* A former official at Azerbaijan’s defense ministry on an Interpol wanted list for embezzlement was detained at a Moscow airport as he tried to flee the country, the Russian Interior Ministry said.