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Main News of January 23

19:59 GMT 23.01.2014

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukraine’s prime minister has dismissed an ultimatum from opposition leaders threatening to go on the offensive unless their demands are met by the government

* Anti-government unrest in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has spread to western Ukraine, where government buildings in two major cities were seized by protesters

* Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for the leaders of the United States and Russia to prevent further escalation of a dangerous standoff between demonstrators and police in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev

* A Russian cruise liner that got lost in the Atlantic and may be loaded with rats could be heading for the British coast, British tabloids said

RUSSIA

* President Vladimir Putin has nominated an outspoken Kremlin critic as Russia’s next ombudsman

* A Russian fishing trawler detained by Senegal for over two weeks on suspicion of illegal fishing has departed from the port of Dakar following its release, the Russian Embassy in Senegal said

* Threats to the rights of gay people in Russia are an issue that has been “invented” abroad, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview

SPORTS

* A record number of athletes will represent Russia at the next month’s Olympic Games in Sochi, the country’s sports minister Vitaly Mutko said

* The Sochi Olympic torch relay arrived in Russia's troubled North Caucasus with a visit to the regional capital, Pyatigorsk

* Russia is under the microscope on doping issues as host of the Winter Olympics, but Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that authorities had raised no concerns over any of the country’s athletes