Main news of December 3 Posted byRussian_Village December 4, 2011 Leave a comment on Main news of December 3 RUSSIA * A national “day of silence” kicked off at midnight on Saturday in Russia prior to parliamentary elections on December 4 * Russia will start building modernized Borey-A class strategic nuclear-powered submarines in 2012, the Sevmash shipyard said * President Dmitry Medvedev urged government agencies to work out a way to punish foreigners for violent treatment of adopted Russian children in the wake of recent acquittal rulings in the United States * Moscow airport customs confiscated a laptop from the leader of the Golos independent election monitoring group accused of violations ahead of the Sunday parliamentary polls WORLD * The White House expressed concern over the political pressure on Russia’s independent election monitoring group Golos ahead of Sunday general election * The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN support mission in Libya where the new government is facing a post-war proliferation of weapons * South Ossetia: – Supporters of former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva demanded incumbent leader Eduard Kokoity’s immediate resignation – Supporters of Dzhioyeva want to inaugurate the politician as president on December 10, spokesman for Dzhioyeva’s staff said – Thousands of opposition protesters in the partly recognized South Ossetian republic refused to leave the square to cast their votes in the Russian parliamentary elections due on Sunday * Syrian diplomats dismissed a new resolution of the UN human rights watchdog as unfair and blatantly politicized, the Foreign Ministry said *A Pennsylvania court sentenced U.S. businessman and patron of arts Kenneth Schneider to 15 years in jail for having intimate relations with a Russian teenaged ballet dancer, NBC said