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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* A Ukrainian protest leader who was allegedly kidnapped and tortured last month has left Kiev for medical treatment in Lithuania, media reported.

* A court in Kazakhstan reduced the prison sentence of a former senior state official from 20 to 13 years after a retrial over the 2006 high-profile killing of an opposition leader.

RUSSIA

* A 15-year-old boy who was a near straight-A student fatally shot a teacher and a policeman with a rifle at his school in northeast Moscow on Monday, according to police and media reports.

* Tricolor TV, Russia’s biggest satellite television provider with over 14 million subscribers, decided to exclude from its satellite package a liberal-leaning channel embroiled in a dispute over an opinion poll about World War II.

* Russia's Audit Chamber has exposed a fraud scheme in the construction of prison facilities that resulted in undue benefits to the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

* A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to depart on a weeklong scientific mission before being buried in the Pacific.

* Vasily Petrov, one of two remaining marshals of the Soviet Union, the highest Soviet military rank, died on Saturday at the age of 98.

* A woman from the southern Russian city of Volgograd has been sentenced to five years in jail for her role in selling another woman into sexual slavery abroad, prosecutors said.

BUSINESS

* A Russian air safety regulator expressed concern about the safety of the country’s new Superjet 100 regional airliner.

* Crisis-hit Ukraine currently owes Russia about $3.3 billion in unpaid natural gas bills, Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom said in an apparent reminder that the long-running conflict over the fuel has not been solved by a recent price cut agreement.

* A Russian hypermarket chain announced that it is planning to go ahead with an initial public offering that will reportedly value the company at about $5 billion.

DEFENSE

* Russia will deploy four additional Su-25 ground attack aircraft at the Kant airbase in Kyrgyzstan in 2014, Russia’s Central Military District said.