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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* New laws in Ukraine severely curtailing the freedom to protest will enter into force after being published as clashes persisted between anti-government demonstrators and police in the capital, Kiev

* Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused some European governments of “indecent” interference in the political crisis in Ukraine

* US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden will ask the Russian law enforcement authorities for protection after having received death threats against him disseminated by the US media, his Russian lawyer said

RUSSIA

* Senegal has released a Russian trawler detained more than two weeks ago on suspicion of illegal fishing, the ship’s owner told Prime news agency

* Russian President Vladimir Putin’s electoral rating rose in December, returning to 2000s levels, a new opinion poll by the independent Levada Center showed

* The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that the country should move ahead with the construction of a new particle accelerator in Siberia to study exotic particles that could unlock secrets of the universe’s formation

* Environmental activists in Russia’s Far East said that construction linked to offshore oil production had been delayed over concerns it could harm local populations of endangered gray whales

SPORTS

* American military assets have been offered to bolster security for the upcoming Sochi Olympic Games scheduled to open in less than three weeks, the Pentagon said

* Twelve Russian athletes in seven different sports have tested positive for banned substances, the national anti-doping agency RUSADA said

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