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* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has suspended his membership in his Party of Regions and gave his powers to his party colleague Nikolai Azarov, a party member said

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to visit Venezuela in March, President Hugo Chavez said at a cabinet meeting

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko suffered a second political defeat in under a month when parliament voted for the dismissal of her government

* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose government was dismissed by parliament on Wednesday, will take a leave of absence, handing duties to her first deputy, Oleksandr Turchynov, a Ukrainian news agency reported

* Nino Burdzhanadze, a leading Georgian opposition figure, has flown to Moscow to seek to improve ties broken off after the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, a Georgian news agency reported

* A Russian emergencies ministry"s Il-76 plane took off on Wednesday for quake-hit Chile

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