Main News of December 23

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

* Russia has handed over vehicles and supplies to assist Syria with destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said

* President Vladimir Putin has signed a document giving Russia’s Federal Security Service the power to investigate cybercrime, the Kremlin announced

BUSINESS

* Russia has completed the repayment of the Soviet Union’s debt of about $3.7 billion to the Czech Republic, Finland and Montenegro, the Finance Ministry said

CRIME

* A Russian court has annulled an American family’s adoption of a 2-year-old boy whose older brother died in the United States

DEFENSE

* Mikhail Kalashnikov, the 94-year-old inventor of the world’s most popular firearm, the AK-47, died Monday in a Russian hospital, a local government official said

* India on Monday carried out a test of a domestically developed ballistic missile with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles), local media reported

* The Russian Navy commissioned its second Borey-class nuclear missile submarine, Alexander Nevsky, into service Monday, a fleet representative said