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20:59 GMT 28.12.2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Mikhail Myasnikovich has been named Belarus's new prime minister, the presidential press service said

* Kyrgyzstan is interested in joining the Customs Union and the common economic space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the country's prime minister, Almazbek Atambayev, said

RUSSIA

* President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new law on security, he said at a Russian Security Council meeting

* Medvedev signed a law establishing a federal investigations committee

* Lawyers of stranded passengers are preparing a multimillion-ruble class action suit against Moscow's Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports, lawyer Sergei Zhorin said

* Passengers angered by massive disruptions of flights from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport as a result of an ice storm attacked several employees of Russia's largest air company, Aeroflot, a company source said

* A British court will hold in February hearings on the deportation of alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter, the Russian Foreign Ministry said

* A Thai prosecutor's office has dropped a child molestation charge against acclaimed Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, Pletnev's lawyer said

* Russia's Foreign Ministry called international criticism of the guilty verdict in the trial of tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky an "unacceptable attempt to exert pressure on the court"

* A Moscow court sentenced a former senator in the Russian parliament's upper house to life behind bars on terrorism and murder charges

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered prosecutors to inspect Moscow airports hit by lengthy delays after an ice storm, the Kremlin said

* Russia has expelled two Spanish diplomats in response to the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Madrid seven weeks ago, the Spanish daily El Pais said

* Electricity supplies resumed in full in Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport, head of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said

BUSINESS

* Russia's committee on foreign investments declined a request by an Iranian company to purchase a shipping port on the Volga River in Astrakhan, Federal Anti-Monopoly Service head Igor Artemyev said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said U.S.-owned PepsiCo plans to invest approximately $1 billion in Russia's Wimm-Bill-Dann beverage company over the next five years

* Putin said during a meeting that foreign direct investment into the Russian economy was approximately $40 billion for 2010

* Russia's 2010 consumer price inflation is likely to exceed the forecast of 8.5% and the government should do its best to restrain inflation growth next year, President Dmitry Medvedev said

DEFENSE

* Russia's Air Force received four new Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers as part of its current modernization program, an Air Force spokesman said