BBCMon News Diary 5 - 15 Jan 2006 - Former Soviet Union.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

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RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve (Russian sources)

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RUSSIA: Russian Orthodox Christmas celebrated (Russian sources)

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UKRAINE: Trial begins in Kiev Appeals Court of three former police officers - Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych - accused of killing journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, who disappeared in 2000 while investigating high-level corruption; headless corpse discovered in woods two months after Gongadze's disappearance was identified as his …