Main News of December 27

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that Kiev might yet sign a trade agreement with the European Union, but the deal would have to involve trilateral talks with Russia

RUSSIA

* Russia’s most famous gun designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, was buried at a new military cemetery outside Moscow

* The Russian Space Forces test-launched a Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said

* Two Russian cosmonauts who last month carried the Olympic torch into open space for the first time conducted a spacewalk to replace equipment on the outside of the International Space Station

* All 30 environmental activists detained over a September protest at an Arctic oil rig and recently pardoned by a presidential amnesty have gotten visas to leave Russia, Greenpeace said

* A Moscow court reversed a lower court’s decision to arrest former senator and wealthy industrialist Sergei Pugachyov, citing procedural violations

* The two Pussy Riot members freed from prison this week said that they were planning to distance themselves from radical political activism and focus on a new project to advocate for the rights of prisoners in Russia