CERES News Digest - Week13, Vol.3; Nov 30-Dec 6

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Country News DigestVol.3, Issue #13

11/30/13-12/06/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

Contributors:-Risa Chubinsky-Glyn Cozart-Joseph Gates-Tomas Hyde-Katharine Quinn-Judge


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Country News DigestRetail prices for gas andsome oil products rosesharply on uesday, after

Azerbaijan

Georgia

RussiaBakus ariff Council voted to raise ceilings on firmscommodities prices. Gasoline prices are reported to haverisen by as much as 33% in some parts of the country. Whileauthorities have not explained the decision, observers havelinked it to decreasing oil production and an anticipatedfall in oil revenues.

On Tursday US federalprosecutors in New Yorkcharged 49 current andformer Russian diplomats and family members withdefrauding Medicaid of $1.5 million in funds between2004 and 2013. Eleven of the 49 diplomats remain in theUS and all have diplomatic immunity preventing theirarrest.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

urkey

Mass protests over thefailed EU AssociationAgreement show littlesigns of stopping, despite harsh rhetoric from PresidentYanukovychs administration calling them Nazis andcriminals. Authorities warned that crackdowns againstprotesters in Independence Square would continue. Teopposition continues to insist that Yanukovych shouldresign, while many eastern Ukrainians are staging pro-government protests in support of his choice.

Uladzislau Lazar, aCatholic priest in Belaruswho has been charged withhigh treason, was released from pretrial detention on thecondition that he does not leave Minsk before the trial.He is accused of paying a Belarusian citizen suspectedof collaborating with foreign secret services. PresidentLukashenka called him a traitor, who spread informationto people abroad through the Catholic church.

US Secretary of State JohnKerry visited MoldovaWednesday to voice hissupport for the countrys Association Agreement withthe EU. Kerrys visit, the first by a US Secretary of Stateto the country since 1992, was the result of the last-minute cancellation of Kerrys planned visit to Ukraine.Observers have termed the cancellation a deliberateshow of disapproval for Ukraines withdrawal from itsAssociation Agreement.

At the European UnionSummit in Vilnius onNovember 27, Georgia

signed an association agreement as the first step toratification for membership in the EU. Among otherperks, Georgia is now a member of the DCFA, whichwill remove trade barriers to the EU. While some, likePrime Minister Gharibashvili, are optimistic aboutGeorgias potential to join the EU, some Georgiancitizens fear oppositional pressure from other countries.

Russias President VladimirPutin paid an official visitto Yerevan on Monday,

prompting roughly 500 protesters to gather outsides ofPresident Serzh Sargsyans presidential headquarters Teprotesters voiced their opposition to Armenias plans tojoin the Russian-led customs union.

urkish journalist Metinuran has been set forrelease from an Egyptian

prison in Cairo. uran was detained while covering theel-Fath Mosque protests in August. About 400 citizenswere detained during the protests, 84 of whom werereleased in a decision by the Egyptian court. uran was injail for over 110 days, and will be freed approximately twodays after the final paperwork is settled.

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Country News DigestMelis Myrzakmatov, mayorof Kyrgyzstans southerncapital of Osh, was

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

dismissed Tursday, prompting nearly 1,000 protesters totake to the streets on his behalf. While Prime MinisterSatybaldiyev connected the dismissal to the upcomingmayoral election in Osh, observers have attributedit to Myrzakmatovs recent criticism of the centralgovernments selective prosecution of corruption.

A report released this weekby a two-star US Armygeneral defends a militaryconstruction project in Afghanistan that has beencriticized as an example of wasteful spending. Te Armyspent $36 million on a 64,000 square foot facility that hasyet to be used.

Mongolia

IranIn conjunction with theGeneva accord signedbetween ehran and P5+1countries in November, Iran will allow inspectors fromthe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) tovisit the Arak heavy water production plant on Sundayin order to monitor activities. Tis is the first time ehranhas permitted the UN group to inspect its facilities inover two years.

Oil and gas ministers fromIndia and urkmenistanmet this week to discussprogress on a US-supported pipeline that would channelnatural gas from urkmenistan to India and Pakistan viaAfghanistan. Te pipeline is expected to be completed in2017-2018 and will cost $7.6 billion to construct.

In a bid to increase tieswith its most importanttrade partner, Mongoliaopened a paved road to China this week. Te highwaystretches from the capital of Ulanbataar to the bordertown of Zamyn Uud.

Te operators ofKazakhstans offshoreoil field, Kashagan, have

identified cracks in a steel pipeline as the probable cause ofgas leaks that forced a a halt in production in November.A full report on damage to the pipeline is expected inmid-January. Discovered in 2000, Kashagan is expectedto double Kazakhstans oil output upon reaching fullcapacity. Tis goal has proven elusive, as production onlystarted this September after a decade of logistical delays.

Newly re-elected ajikpresident EmomaliRakhmon has appointed

his son, Rustam Emomali, to the head of the CustomsService of ajikistan. Emomali, 26, formerly held thepost of deputy chief of the Customs Service before theannouncement of his promotion on November 30. Someanalysts suggest that Rahmon is grooming his son to behis successor as president.

Investigations into assetsconnected to PresidentIslam Karimovs daughter

Gulnara continued this week , although not all of themwere carried out by the Uzbek government. On Wednesday,Uzbek authorities opened a financial investigation into apublishing house owned by one of Gulnaras associates.Swiss authorities raided her Geneva villa on Tursday,in part of an investigation into an embezzlement caseopened against four Uzbek citizens in 2012.

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Country News DigestOn December 3, USSecretary of State Kerryand Estonian Foreign

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech RepublicMinister Paet signed a cyber partnership statement. Testatement supports bilateral activity and cooperation withininternational organizations to increase internet freedomand security. Estonia is organizing the Freedom OnlineCoalitions annual conference in allinn.

On Monday a SouthAfrican court chargedCzech gold dealer andalleged gangster Radovan Krejcir with attempted murder,kidnapping, and assault. Krejcir, who has been living inSouth Africa for eight years and has applied for asylumthere, is also wanted in the Czech Republic for fraud.Krejcir has denied all charges against him.

Latvia

Romania

Hungary

Poland

Notorious far-rightpolitician Marian Kotlebawon a local election in theBanska Bystrica region to become its next governor with55.5% of the vote. Te Eurosceptic is known for his anti-Roma rhetoric and Nazi-style uniform, and considersNAO a terrorist organization. Human rights activistsand Jewish groups expressed concern over the growingstrength of neo-Nazi parties in Europe and urged votersto reconsider.

Hungary has slipped aranking in ransparencyInternationals (I) 2013Corruption Perception Index. Hungary came in at 23rd outof 31 ranked European countries. Tis puts the country inthe top third of the most corrupt countries in Europe, aheadof nations like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, andGreece. I Hungary managing director Jozsef Pter Martinhas called the ranking a step backward for Hungary.

Chevron is resuming itssearch for shale gas in easternRomania after months ofprotest opposing the project from local residents. Riotpolice blocked a road leading to the Chevron site, keepingresidents from protesting at the facility on December 2.Chevron is drilling exploratory wells in Pungesti, andcould potentially recover 51 trillion cubic feet of shalegas.

On November 28 EUleaders convened in Vilniusfor the two-day Eastern

Partnership Summit. Te governments of Moldovaand Georgia signed Association Agreements with theEU. However, these landmarks were overshadowed byUkraines last minute decision to back out of its proposedAssociation Agreement in favor of pursuing strongereconomic ties with Russia.

Te Prime Minister ofLatvia Valdis Dombrovskishas resigned, after Riga

grocery stores roof collapsed, killing 54. Dombrovskiscenter-right party, Unity, is expected to name the newPrime Minister soon.

A massive hurricane-forcestorm has been sweepingthrough Northern Europe,

leaving nine people dead so far in total, three of whichwere in Poland. An additional Pole has been reportedinjured. Electricity lines have also been severely damaged,leaving approximately 100,000 people without power. TePolish Institute of Meteorology and Water Managementhas forecasted wind gusts of up to 135 kmh (85 mph) onthe Baltic Coast.

Slovakia

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5/6

Country News DigestDuring an overnight voteon the 2014 budget, theBulgarian parliament voted

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiato instate a 20% fee on income from wind and solarpower installations in an effort to lower electricity billsand reduce clean energy-related deficits. Wind and solarproducers say the fee will lead to bankruptcies and lessforeign investment. Tey also voted to limit the amountof energy that can be purchased at preferential prices.

In a referendum lastweekend, voters elected toamend the Constitution todefine marriage as being between a man and a woman,effectively banning gay marriage. Sixty-five percentof Croatian voters favored the amendment. However,President Josipovic stated his distaste for the referendum,saying, Defining marriage between a man and a womandoesnt belong to the constitution.

Serbia

Macedonia

Oleg Deripaska, theRussian billionairewho heads the CentralEuropean Aluminum Company, is suing theMontenegrin government for 100 million euros due tothe failure of its aluminum plant in Montenegro. Heclaims the country violated a 2010 agreement, leadingto the plants bankruptcy. Te government insists itfollowed all laws and that bankruptcy proceedings fitboth domestic and international legal provisions.

Run-off elections heldSunday in 25 of Kosovos 38municipalities proceededpeacefully, with voter turnout around 40%. Polls saw thedefeat of Prishtinas longtime mayor, as well as wins by theBelgrade-backed Serbian List party in six Serb-dominatedmunicipalities. Te election, the first round of which wasmarred by violence on November 2, is a key element of anEU-brokered deal to normalize Serbia-Kosovo relations.

Sources within theSlovenian government areclaiming that Slovenia willneed only $5 billion to recapitalize its troubled bankingsector. Tis will allow Slovenia to avoid a bailout from theEuro Zone. Te official results of an external audit will bereleased on December 13.

Albanias Supreme Courtwas racked by scandal lastweek afer an investigative

television show aired a series o videos, which appearedto show court employees collecting thousands o eurosin bribes. Te countrys General Prosecutor respondedby starting a probe and suspending the chie prosecutoro the town o Puke. Te head o the national SupremeCourt has denied all charges, and has termed the videosslanderous.

Serbian Prime MinisterDacic met with hisKosovar counterpart, Prime

Minister Taci, in Brussels on Tursday to discuss waysto implement a pact undertaken in April between thetwo countries. Te two discussed ways to appoint judgesand officials in the northern part of Kosovo, which has anethnically Serbian majority. Te two will continue talksin mid-December.

Prime Minister Gruevskisaid in an interview thisweek that talks between

Macedonia and Greece regarding the name disputehave seriously deteriorated over the last 18 months. Heclaimed that the tone of the disagreement had beengrowing more positive before Greek Prime MinisterSamaras took office in 2012. Since then, he says the talkshave regressed. Outside observers have said that bothsides should continue to promote negotiations.

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6/6

Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

On Wednesday Bosniasstate prosecution officeannounced the arrest ofnine Bosnian Serb former police officers for war crimesduring the 1992-95 war. Arrested in the Bosnian Serb-controlled towns of Kotor Varos, Bileca, and rebinje, thenine are suspected of the torture, illegal imprisonment,expulsion, deportation and killing of Croatian and

Bosniak populations between May and December of1992.

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