Main news of December 30

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A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, convicted on charges of abuse of office, will be serving her sentence in the Kachanovskaya Penal Colony in the country’s Kharkov region, the penitentiary service said.

*North Korea has said the international community should not "expect any change" in its policies after the death of leader Kim Jong-il.
*The Syrian opposition is pushing for the resignation of a Sudanese general heading the Arab League’s monitoring mission in Syria, al Arabiya reported.

 

RUSSIA

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the repar of a Russian submarine damaged by fire while in dry dock near Murmansk.

*A former governor of Russia's Tula region and an ex-member of the State Committee for Emergency Situations (GKChP), who was behind the 1991 Russian putsch, Vasily Starodubtsev, died on Friday at the age of 80.

*Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov pledged to launch sweeping reforms in many spheres if he is elected Russian president at the March 4 elections, in a manifesto published on Thursday.

*The leaders of the For Fair Elections movement plan to organize another big demonstration in Moscow on February 4 or 5, Solidarity leader Boris Nemtsov told RIA Novosti.

 

 

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