Main news of January 11

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

* Rapprochement between Ukraine and the European Union depends on whether the former Soviet republic adheres to the supremacy of law and human rights, an EU commissioner said

* Chinese President Hu Jintao confirmed his country had carried out its first test-flight of a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet

RUSSIA

* A senior Russian Finance Ministry official blasted a pyramid scheme proposed by convicted conman Sergei Mavrodi

* Police detained about 50 people in central Moscow after calls by a nationalist movement for a rally

* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will spend 115 billion rubles ($3.8 bln) on national space programs in 2011

* Russia's Krasin and Admiral Makarov icebreakers have set course for the Sodruzhestvo mother fishery ship before returning to rescue the Bereg Nadezhdy refrigerator ship, the Transport Ministry said

* The defense of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was arrested in Moscow by police after a rally on December 31, complained to the European Court on Human Rights urging a fair trial, the political figure's lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov, said

* Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will give the new arms reduction deal with the United States a third and final reading on January 25, house speaker Boris Gryzlov said

* European Parliament deputies suggested imposing possible economic and visa sanctions against Russian officials involved in Russian ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's trial and conviction, Russian business daily Kommersant said

BUSINESS

* Russian consumer price inflation in December 2010 totalled 1.1%, with overall inflation for the year 2010 hitting 8.8%, the same as in the preceding year, the Federal State Statistics Service said

* Russia canceled its flour export ban on January 1, following appeals from flour millers who fear losing foreign customers