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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* The prime minister has taken control of power in Tunisia after President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country afternoon, Al Jazeera reported

*The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, voted for ratification of a new strategic arms reduction deal with the United States on the second reading, setting its terms for approving the pact

* Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested a Russian serviceman and his mother on accusations of spying for Georgia, the FSB public relations center said

* Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been summoned to the Milan Prosecutor General's Office for questioning about his alleged relationship with an underage dancer, the Italian Apcom news agency said

* Poland has asked Russia to hand over the cockpit voice recordings, not just transcripts, from the Polish president's plane that crashed in Russia last year, the Polish Interior Ministry said

* Kazakhstan's parliament voted unanimously in favor of a referendum to extend the rule of long-standing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev until 2020, bypassing the 2012 election

RUSSIA

* Russia's federal government will lose 5 percent of its staff this year as part of a three-year program of cuts, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman said

Russia's financial ombudsman dismissed a new pyramid scheme announced by convicted fraudster Sergei Mavrodi as a PR stunt aimed at cashing in on the upcoming movie PyraMMMid

* The former chief engineer of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant in Eastern Siberia, where dozens of people died in an explosion in 2009, was charged for violating safety rules, a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee said

* A government official will be questioned over an attack on an environmental activist who opposed a controversial road building project near Moscow, a police source said

*Police in Russia's Far East requested Internet provider Alyans-Telekom in Vladivostok to remove from its site a banner that would allow visitors to shoot at the Kremlin as well as at an animated character similar in appearance to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

BUSINESS

* The world's top aluminum producer RusAl has filed three law suits against Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer, over its deals with Trafigura Beheer BV, Inter RAO and a $4.5 billion buy-back program, according to copies of the suits obtained by RIA Novosti

* Russia's Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer, expects 2010 net profit to exceed $5 billion, General Director Vladimir Strzhalkovsky said

* Russia's car imports in January-November from non-CIS countries increased 29 percent to 619,300 cars and $10.14 billion in money terms, the Federal Customs Service said

*Russia's trade surplus widened 24 percent in January-November 2010 to $147.6 billion, the Federal Customs Service said

*Prosperity Capital Management investment firm branched out into real estate in the fourth quarter of 2010 by acquiring a 5.64 percent stake in RGI International property company, RBC Daily said

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