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Main news of January 27

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23:59 27/01/2012

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukraine hopes to find a solution to the gas dispute with Russia soon, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday in Davos at the World Economic Forum

RUSSIA

* A bill introducing life sentences and mandatory chemical castration for pedophiles passed the crucial second reading in the State Duma

* The Russian Communist Party presented a pair of scissors to Central Election Commission head Vladimir Churov, calling on him to live up to his promise and get rid of his beard following reports of mass fraud in December parliamentary elections

* Businesses in Russia that lend support to the opposition are being subjected to harassment, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said

* Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin remains the leader among the five candidates for presidency with 49 percent of respondents ready to vote for him, according to a public survey

* The Russian Central Election Committee (CEC) officially rejected applications from Yabloko party founder Grigory Yavlinsky and Irkutsk Governor Dmitry Mezentsev to be registered as presidential candidates

* Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov has set himself the task of becoming the major figure and choice for those Russians who do not want to vote for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 4 presidential elections

BUSINESS

* Economic deregulation will be a priority for Russia’s new president and government in the next five-six years, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said

DEFENSE

* Russia’s Federal Border Guard Service is planning to build a center for the production of flarecraft to improve protection of the country’s maritime borders

SCIENCE

* The launch of a Soyuz capsule carrying the new International Space Station (ISS) crew may be postponed over faults in the capsule’s assembly, a source within the Russian space industry

SOCIETY

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged his challengers in the presidential race to drop nationalist slogans, warning of the possibly “fatal” consequences of fuelling Russian chauvinism

SPORTS

* Swiss prosecutors said they were considering keeping Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev in detention for the weekend after arresting him over suspected fraud at his Swiss SuperLeague side Neuchatel Xamax

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