CERES News Digest: Vol.2, Issue #6 - Feb.18-22, 2013

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Country News DigestVol.2, Issue #6

02/18/13-02/22/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

Contributors:-Joseph Gates-Matthew OBrien-Bree Swineford-Jillian Tetirick-Grace Tran

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2/6

Country News DigestAzerbaijan is promoting itsculture in France by holdingDays o Azerbaijan events

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiain several parts o the country. Azerbaijans culturepromotion project dates back to 2007, when the HeydarAliev Fund made large donations to the Palace oVersailles or restoration work.

Sergei Ignatiev, Russiascentral bank governor,stated that over $49 billion

was lost in capital ight last year. A central bank studyindicated that over hal o the capital ight was in theorm o narcotics, illegal imports, bribes, and tax evasionschemes. Ignatiev also suggested that the capital ight wascontrolled by one well-organised group o individuals.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Turkey

Te Prosecutor GeneralsOce has stated that it hassucient evidence to bringcharges against ormer president Leonid Kuchma relatedto the 2000 murder o journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. Aprevious case against Kuchma was dismissed in 2011.

A Belarusian SupremeCourt sentenced a borderguard to two years in prisonor ailing to protect the country rom an invasion ooreign teddy bears. Te court determined the man wasguilty o ailing to report the light plane that crossed intoBelarusian airspace and dropped hundreds o teddy bearswith parachutes holding human rights signs.

Ocials rom the Moldovangovernment held talks

with EU leaders aboutthe countrys progress towards membership this week.Moldovas recent political crisis is threatening to delay orhalt progress towards EU membership with local electionspossibly being orced as soon as April.

In a sign o improvingrelations, Russian sanitationexperts will soon venture to

Georgia to inspect wine and mineral water productionacilities in order to clear them or import. Georgian wineand mineral water has been subject to an import ban sincethe Russian-Georgian War o 2008.

Armenia held itspresidential election onMonday. As predicted,

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian won handily overhis opponents with 58.64% o the vote. His primaryopponent, Ra Hovannisian (36.74% o the vote), hasreused to accept these results, instead demanding ameeting with Sarkisian.

urkey and the UnitedArab Emirates (UAE)have signed a military deal.

Te UAE will buy $200 million worth o weapons romurkey, including CIRI missiles.

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Articles:Vestnik Kavkaza Albawaba Business

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Country News DigestFive members o thebanned Hizb ut-ahrirorganization were arrested

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

in Kyrgyzstans southern city o Jalal-Abad. Te StateCommittee or National Security (UKMK) reportedthat ocers ound and conscated a large amount oextremist books and digital data recorders at the suspectsresidences.

An Aghan intelligenceagency conducted anoperation that capturedMaulvi Faqir Mohammad, a high-ranking Pakistanimember o the aliban. Experts believe that since MullahFaqir was heavily involved in terrorist activity in thePakistani region o Swat, his capture by Aghan orcescould improve relations between the two countries.

Mongolia

IranIran has agreed to build arenery in Pakistan, whichwill supply Iranian uel tothe energy-hungry state. Te renery, set or constructionin Gwadar near the border with Iran, will produce 400,000barrels per day. Te two countries also decided on a deal,which will provide Iranian natural gas to Pakistan inexchange or ood products such as meat, wheat, and rice.

wo urkmen civil societyactivists were recentlyreed ater serving outtheir prison terms. Sapardurdy Khajiev and AnnakurbanAmanklychev were arrested in 2006 ater they helped aFrench director produce a lm about the state o humanrights in urkmenistan.

A paleontologist has pledguilty to charges o lyingon customs orms, ater hedeclared the value o dinosaur ossils that he discoveredin Mongolia as $19,000 and then sold them at auctionor $1 million. Te government has since seized theTyrannosaurus bataar ossils and will return them toMongolia.

Kazakhstans nationalnuclear center has signeda memorandum o under-

standing with Japans Atomic Power Co. to build anuclear power station in the Central Asian state. Tetwo countries have recently come to agreements on theextraction o Kazakhstans resources, which Japan is eagerto help its partner exploit.

US Assistant Secretaryo State or South andCentral Asian Afairs

Robert Blake is in Dushanbe this week or a two-dayvisit. Ater a meeting with President Emomali Rahmonon Wednesday, Blake called on ajikistans leadership tohold ree and air elections in November. Blake also saidthe US does not plan to use ajikistans inrastructure orthe withdrawal rom Aghanistan in 2014.

Tis week thousands oUzbeks were stuck alongthe Uzbek-Kazakh border

ater police set up roadblocks preventing migrant workersrom entering Kazakhstan. Only laborers with a workpermit and a work agreement with a company in Russia orKazakhstan were allowed to pass. Some have speculatedthat the roadblock was set up in response to PresidentIslam Karimovs criticism o the interior ministry lastmonth.

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4/6

Country News DigestEstonia recently openedthe rst nationwide astcharging system or electric

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicvehicles in Europe. Te government, which partneredwith Mitsubishi or the project, hopes this will boostsales o electric cars and reduce carbon emissions in thecountry. Estonia currently has one electric vehicle per1,000 gas-ueled cars.

PM Necas ruling CivicDemocrats Party (ODS)hit a teen year low inopinion polls released Wednesday. Te center-right ODSdropped to 11.6% backing, behind its center-right rivalOP 09 (14.2%) and well behind the Social Democrats(28.2%). Allegations o corruption and recent austeritymeasures are the primary reasons behind the drop.

Latvia

Romania

Hungary

Poland

Te unemployment ratein Slovakia hit a nine-year high at 14.8%. Weakexports are a primary reason or the continued highunemployment levels, but analysts in Bratislava have alsoblamed recent government changes to the labor and taxcodes as contributing to the problem.

In order to protectreedom o expression, theConstitutional Court oHungary has overturned a law that banned the use ocommunist and ascist symbols. A public outcry againstthe decision, led by the Hungarian Jewish community, hasled many politicians to explore other means o institutinga ban on ascist and communist symbols, such as passinga constitutional amendment.

On uesday Romanianpolice raided the MedNew Lie private clinic onsuspicion o illegally selling human eggs and arrestedtwo Israeli citizens - Pro. Raphael Ron-El, head o thehospitals in vitro ertilization unit, and his lab technician,Daphna Komarovsky. Police also arrested a number oRomanian suspects. Ocials believe that the clinic paidRoamian women between 600 and 800 to harvesttheir eggs, then sold them or or 3,000 to 4,000.

ogether with Poland andUkraine, Lithuania hasagreed to create a joint

peacekeeping team consisting o one battalion romeach country. Te brigade will support United Nationsand NAO operations as well as humanitarian missions.Originally planned or 2012, the governments now hopeto organize the brigade by the end o 2013.

Prime Minister ValdisDombrovskis has declaredLatvias intention to

ormally apply or membership in the Eurozone early nextmonth, with a complete transition to the Euro expectedby the end o 2013. Experts believe that Lithuania andPoland will likely also seek Eurozone membership in theyears to come.

Tis week Fitch Ratingsrevised Polands scalstatus, raising its outlook

rom stable to positive but maintaining its A- creditrating. Te revision reects improvements in Polandsbudget decit (down to 3.4%) as well as stabilizationo the countrys public debt ratio. Fitch also predictedhealthy growth rates or the medium term.

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5/6

Country News DigestViolent protests overcorruption, rising utilitycosts, and deteriorating

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiastandards o living led Bulgarian Prime Minister BoikoBorisov to resign. However, his resignation has onlyurther incited public anger, and more protests areplanned over the weekend. President Rosen Plevnelievbegan talks to discuss orming a new government.

Slovenian ocials hadpromised to hold a meetingthis week to resolve a long-standing banking dispute that threatens to keep Croatiarom EU accession, but political upheaval has orcedSlovenian ocials to delay the meeting until March 10.Both countries believe that they can still resolve the issuein time or Croatias scheduled EU entry on July 1.

Serbia

Macedonia

Montenegro has signedan economic and tourismcooperation agreementwith neighboring Croatia. Te agreement calls or morecollaboration between the two states tourist industriesand the deepening o economic ties. Croatia also voicedits continued support or Montenegro to join the EU andapplauded the country or its treatment o its minorityCroat population.

Kosovo recently celebratedits 5th year anniversaryo independence romSerbia. Posters with the slogan Ko5ova decorated thecapital. Even with the joyous, unilateral celebration oindependence, Petrit Selimi, Kosovar deputy oreignminister, acknowledged that Kosovo still struggleswith international recognition and is plagued withinrastructure problems.

Te largest state-ownedbank in Slovenia, NovaLjubljanska Banka (NLB),announced urther losses and stated that it will requireapproximately 400 million euros to comply withEuropean regulatory requirements. NLB posted a 273.5million euro loss in 2012. Te Slovenian government isset to assume 90% ownership o the bank later this year.

Te United States haswarned Albanian leadersagainst stoking nationalism

in a memo to the Albanian Foreign Ministry. PrimeMinister Sali Berisha has recently raised eyebrows overhis recent controversial comments, including reerringto a Greek town as Albanian lands and calling ormerAlbanian guerilla ghters in Serbia heroes o theAlbanian nation. Te memo also bluntly told Albanianpoliticians to stay out o the afairs o Serbia.

Certain brands o milkare being pulled of storeshelves while awaiting

testing or the possible presence o a cancer-causingtoxin. Tis comes ater details that the government mayhave tried to hide the results caused large outbursts opublic discontent. Te agriculture minister accused theopposition Democratic Party o trying to destabilize thegovernment by distorting public health matters.

Te head o the SocialDemocrats, the oppositionparty, stated that he hoped

that they would be able to avoid a boycott o the electionsin March. Te Social Democrats reused to submit a listo gubernatorial candidates ater the government ignorethe partys demand to postpone the election.

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6/6

Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Te European Commissionannounced that Bosniaand Herzegovina (BiH)received the rst loan tranche worth 50 million inmacro-nancial assistance. In November the Council othe European Union approved giving BiH a 100 millionmacro-nancial assistance loan or urther structuralreorms and economic improvements as part o BiHs EU

integration process.

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Articles:New Europe Balkans.com
http://www.neurope.eu/article/bih-received-50-million-loan-euhttp://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=169851http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=169851http://www.neurope.eu/article/bih-received-50-million-loan-eu

CERES News Digest: Vol.2, Issue #6 - Feb.18-22, 2013

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