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19:59 GMT 17.12.2012

RUSSIA

* A group of prominent Russian rights advocates and experts unveiled a new independent human rights organization, intended to lobby Western governments to introduce more sanctions against Russian officials implicated in rights abuses

* Russian whistleblower and opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that investigators have officially notified him about a second criminal case against him

* The Russian embassy in Syria confirmed that two Russian nationals have been abducted near the western Syrian port city of Latakia

* Cyprus confirmed that it had launched a probe into the possible laundering of funds stolen in Russia

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* Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its traditional partner New Komeito party won 325 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament during elections on Sunday securing an impressive return to power after three years in opposition