CERES News Digest - Week12, Vol.2 : April 15-19

7/28/2019 CERES News Digest - Week12, Vol.2 : April 15-19

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Country News DigestVol.2, Issue #12

04/15/13-04/19/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

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

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Country News DigestElmar Mammadyarov,the Foreign Minister oAzerbaijan, is bringing

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiaa delegation to Israel rom April 21- 23. Te talks willbe centered around improving bilateral relations andbusiness activity, as well as the Middle East peace process.Both countries have had good relations since the early1990s.

Te two suspects in the BostonMarathon bombing have beenidentied as Dzhokar and

amerlan sarnaev, who are linked to Chechnya. Te Russianmedia is waiting to release a denite statement on the attacks,but a survey o news articles indicate that newspapers aredisassociating the Dzhokar brothers rom Russia. Russian SportsMinister Vitaly Mutko also see the Boston Marathon attacks asa need to up security or the Winter Olympics.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Turkey

Ukraine has nished anew plan on increasingenergy cooperation withthe European Union. Te plan includes liberalizingthe Ukrainian energy sector and taking urther steps toensure the saety o the Chernobyl reactor site. Meetingsbetween the EU and Ukraine on the topic o energy willbe held early next month.

Standard and Poors hasupgraded Belarus ratingrom stable to positive onWednesday, citing improved economic stability romtightened monetary and scal policies. Te governmenthas cut spending and raised interest rates, which hasbrought ination down rom over 100 percent in 2011 to21.8 percent last year. Belarus credit rating remains a B-.

Te EU has approved a newvisa acilitation agreementregarding Moldovancitizens. Te new visa regime will simpliy paperwork and

waive ees or many Moldovans wishing to enter the EU.Additionally, Moldovan citizens with biometric passportswill be able to enter the EU and travel within it or shortperiods o time without a visa.

President o GeorgiaMikheil Saakashvili hasbeen accused o embezzling

state unds to pay or his childrens education and toentertain high-prole Russian celebrities. Te accusationspreceded a rally planned by his party United NationalMovement, which is slated to take place on Friday.

Armenian news outletshave erupted in outrageater Secretary o State

John Kerry asserted that urkey is playing a constructiverole in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute betweenArmenia and Azerbaijan. Te comments came as Kerrydiscussed the 2014 Foreign Aairs budget with theHouse Foreign Aairs Committee this week.

urkey, one o Syriasneighbors that is heavilyabsorbing reugees, is

having difculty providing humanitarian aid to all thereugees that are living on the urkish-Syrian border. Terapidly increasing numbers o Syrian reugees is strainingurkeys budget, and the country is prioritizing extendingaid to women and children.

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Country News DigestPresident Atambayevannounced last Friday thatKyrgyzstan is committed

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Kazakhstan

to joining the Customs Union o Belarus, Kazakhstan,and Russia by the end o the year. Atambayev stated that,Most citizens believe that we should live in the commoneconomic space with the brotherly peoples o Russia,Kazakhstan and Belarus. Tis week the Russian Dumaapproved writing-o Kyrgyzstans $500 million debt.

Aghan President HamidKarzai has accused CIAcontrolled inormal militiaso calling in an airstrike that killed 17 civilians, including12 children, that took place on April 7. An Americanofcial has reuted Karzais claim that the unit involvedwas entirely under the CIAs control, remarking that sucha claim reects internal power struggles in Kabul.

Mongolia

IranDespite international sanc-tions and six UN resolutionsagainst its enrichmentprogram, Iran is increasing the number o advancedcentriuges at its Natanz nuclear plant. Sources estimatethat experts may have installed up to 600 new centriuges,a development which would be a urther breach o theInternational Atomic Energy Agencys guidelines.

On April 18, urkmenCentral Commission orElections and Reerendumsannounced that they have begun the process ornominating candidates to replace the retiring MPs inParliament. urkmenistan is to hold Parliamentaryelections on June 2.

Mongolia has reached anagreement with GenieEnergy, an American-basedcompany, to develop oil shale resources in the countryscentral region. Te agreement ollows Genie Energyssurvey o the area, which revealed the presence o whatthey have characterized as a world-class resource inMongolia.

In a response to an EUParliament resolution criti-cizing the human rights

situation in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayevstated that Kazakhstans glass o democracy is threequarters ull, and we have to ll it up. Te EU Parliamentdocument expressed concerns regarding the banning ounregistered political parties and the arrests o journalists.

Russias Federal SecurityService is consideringsuspending the railway

service between ajikistan and Russia citing poormaintenance and drug trafcking. Ater inspecting atrain, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozinsaid that, this train in principle must not be allowed intoRussia, and that You eel like it is a serious threat to thesanitary health o the whole nation. It takes nearly 97hours to ride the train rom Dushanbe to Moscow.

Uzbek President IslamKarimov visited Moscowthis week at the request o

President Vladimir Putin. Te two discussed Aghanistanpost-2014 and cooperation in combating terrorism, drugtrafcking and organized crime. Russia is a major sourceo remittances or the Uzbek economy, accounting or$5.7 billion last year alone.

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

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Turkmenistan

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Country News DigestAccording to a study by theBank o Estonia, Estoniansound more jobs abroad

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Lithuania

Czech Republicthan in their home country in 2012. Te study listsemigration as a major challenge or the Baltic state inthe coming years, and says that Estonia should expect amismatch between the needs o the labor market and theskill sets o the unemployed.

Azeri and Czechleaders stressed that therelationship between theirtwo countries must expand beyond energy cooperationat a recent meeting in Baku. In addition to discussionson the deepening o bilateral ties, the Czech Republichas oered to help mediate a settlement to the Nagarno-Karabakh conict.

Latvia

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Hungary

Poland

Te head o the OrthodoxChurch in the CzechRepublic and Slovakia,Metropolitan Krysto, has resigned amid allegationso engaging in sexual activity and athering numerouschildren. Metropolitan Krysto denies the accusationsbut resigned in an attempt to maintain the unity o theChurch according to a spokesperson.

Recent constitutionalchanges in Hungarybecame the subject odebate in the European Parliament this week. Ministerso European Parliament have criticized several acetso Hungarys constitutional changes that they claimundermine the rule o law in the country.

Te opposition parties ailedto gain enough backing ora vote o no-condenceagainst Prime Minister Victor Pontas government overa property-restitution law demanded by the EuropeanCourt o Human Rights. So ar Romania has settledabout 5 billion euros in claims to property that wasseized during the communist era. Bucharest is still acinganother 8 billion euros in claims.

Lithuania is hosting aneconomic orum on itstrade ties with Belarus this

week in Klaipeda, scheduled to continue through Friday.Lithuania has stated that it hopes relations with Belaruswill improve when it takes over the EU Presidency inJuly o this year. Te orum will cover topics such asagriculture, I, transportation, and industry.

In another sign that Latviais ready to adopt the euro,statistics released this

week indicate that the Baltic nations budget decitell to only 1.2% o its GDP. Te limit or countriesdesiring to join the Euro Zone is 3% o GDP.

A new museum celebratingthe history and culture oPolands Jewish community

is set to open in Warsaw this week. Te museum is locatedon a street which used to be part o the Warsaw ghettoduring the Holocaust, and its curators intend or it to bea museum o lie rather than just a memorial to the past.

Slovakia

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Country News DigestDespite the large protestsover poor living standards,Bulgarias center-right

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiaparty, GERB, is still maintaining high popularity aheado the May 12 parliamentary elections. Boiko BorisovsGERB party, which is seen as the only way to preventthe cabinet rom being overtaken by Socialists, is notexpected to take the majority o the vote.

Although Croatiasopposition center-rightHDZ party took the mostseats in the countrys rst ever election or EuropeanParliament, analysts are more concerned with thehistorically low voter turnout or the event. Only 21% ovoters participated in the elections, the one o the lowestgures in European Union history.

Serbia

Macedonia

Te opposition inMontenegro is callingor protests ollowing theofcial declaration o a winner in the countrys presidentialelection. President Vujanovic won reelection by a narrowmargin, and the opposition has alleged numerous electionirregularities.

Kosovar activists havebeen protesting the WorldBanks plan to build acoal plant in their country, saying that they want cleanenergy. Last month, the activists released public healthadvertisements, which went viral on KOSID, a civilsociety platorm. World Bank recently responded thatthey could not reuse to nance a coal plant i that meantpeople would reeze.

Slovenia was able to avoidan international bailoutater a strong bond sale. Tecountry was able to raise $1.3 billion Wednesday in itslatest move to avoid requesting international assistanceor its troubled banks. Te Slovene government plans touse some o the raised unds to buy back debt that maturesthis June in an attempt to calm international investors.

Prime Minister SaliBerishas ruling DemocraticParty sacked a Central

Election Commission (CEC) ofcial this week aterthe Socialist Movement or Integration (LSI) juniorcoalition partner let to join the opposition ahead o theJune 23 parliamentary elections. Te Democrats askedparliament to relieve the CEC ofcial rom the LSI andreplaced him with someone rom the Republican Party,another coalition member.

Serbia has agreed to a newround o EU-mediatedtalks over the issue o

Kosovo. Te new talks will delay a report that was tobe released this week on Serbias progress towards EUmembership. Te last round o EU-sponsored talks endedwith a rejection rom Belgrade earlier this month.

Macedonian PrimeMinister Nikola Gruevskibrought a delegation to

Baku to talk about economic cooperation betweenAzerbaijan and Macedonia. Te venture is being supportedby Ministry o Economic Development and AzerbaijanExport and Investment Promotion Foundation.

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Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

On Monday SecretaryGeneral o theOrganization o IslamicCooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, called onBosnia and Herzegovina to become a ull member o theorganization, stressing the economic benets the countrycould receive. Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently anobserver at the OIC, as the Bosnian Serb entity is against

ull membership.

Box 571031, ICC 111, Washington, DC 20057-1031

Email: [email protected] Tel.: (202) 687-6080 Fax: (202) 687-5829

Te Center or Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies is a U.S.Department o Education itle VI-unded National Resource Center (NRC)

that strives to increase understanding and appreciation o the cultures andchallenges o the region stretching rom Central Europe to the Pacifc and

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CERES News Digest - Week12, Vol.2 : April 15-19

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