CERES News Digest - Week4, Vol.4; Feb.2-7

8/13/2019 CERES News Digest - Week4, Vol.4; Feb.2-7

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Country News DigestVol.4, Issue #4

02/02/14-02/07/14

Editor: Eugene Imas

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


2/6

Country News DigestOn Tursday co-chairsof the OSCE MinskGroup announced that

Azerbaijan

Georgia

RussiaAzerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev and his Armeniancounterpart have agreed to minimize ceasefire violationsaround Nagorno-Karabakh during the Winter Olympics.Tis announcement comes after several weeks of increasedtensions between the countries over disputed territory.

Te independent newstelevision channel Dozhdis in danger of closingafter posting a controversial online poll last week overwhether or not the Soviet Union should have surrenderedLeningrad during World War II to avoid a siege. Tesurvey immediately provoked ire from government officialsand others and has led to the channel being dropped byevery major satellite broadcaster.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

urkey

At least twelve peoplewere killed and five othersinjured when a train and aminibus collided in northeastern Ukraine on WednesdayReports from the site of the collision near the town of Vyrysay that the bus was dragged approximately 1,000 feet fromthe tracks and that it was mainly transporting teachersand children from school. Te cause of the collision is stillunder investigation, although some reports claim that theminibus driver ignored an oncoming train signal.

Abel, a feature film basedon the disputed presidentialelection of 2010, beganproduction late last week in Minsk. Te film is sponsored byBelaruss Ministry of Culture, and is produced by a privatecompany owned by a functionary of the pro-governmentmovement White Rus. Abels producer says it will presenta true picture of the 2010 post-election protests that ledto the imprisonment of opposition candidates and a freshround of western sanctions against Belarus.

Prime Minister IurieLeanca has called areferendum held on February 2 in the autonomous region oGagauzia more than regrettable. According to Gagauziaselectoral commission, 97% of voters opposed the countrysdeepening ties with the EU, 98% expressed a desire forcloser ties to the Russia-led Customs Union, and 99%endorsed the regions right to declare independence shouldMoldova choose to join Romania. Observers say the resultsare symptomatic of the regions political marginalization.

wo Georgians servingsentences for espionage inRussia have been granted

early release, according to an announcement madeWednesday by Georgian officials. Te two former inmateswere arrested after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war andsentenced to eight and nine years respectively. Georgiasauthorities say they are now working to secure the releaseof an undisclosed number of Georgian citizens whoremain imprisoned in Russia on similar charges.

Retired police colonelKhachik Martirosyan wasarrested on Wednesday

During a trip to Berlin,Prime Minister Erdoganasked Germany to give

on charges of spying for Azerbaijan. Matirosyan hasbeen accused of selling Armenian military secrets toAzerbaijan, after the Armenian National SecurityService intercepted the information en route to Baku.Matirosyan could be found guilty of high treason, whichcarries a 15-year prison sentence.

stronger support for urkeys bid to join the EU. GermanChancellor Merkel remained tentative in her assessmentof urkeys chances, claiming she was skeptical abouturkeys progress on most issues still pending in theaccession talks. Merkel added that she thought Germanycould help urkey in judicial matters after its recentcorruption scandal.

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3/6

Country News DigestRussian Defense MinisterShoigu announced thatRussia will reinforce the

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

air force base in Kyrgyzstan, cooperating with the localKyrgyz military in order to respond to new threats afterthe US withdraws from Afghanistan. Te Kyrgyz militarywill receive updated equipment and support from theRussian military securing their border with Afghanistan,as well as four ground attack aircraft, in 2014.

Afghan President Karzaisspokesman announced thatKarzai has been holdingsecret talks with the aliban to try to negotiate peacefulsettlement three weeks ago. Western and Afghan officialssay the talks have not yet proven useful, but Karzai remainsoptimistic. Analysts think that Karzais willingness tonegotiate with the aliban is a result of an increasinglytense relationship with the US as troops are withdrawn.

Mongolia

IranOn Tursday the US issuedpenalties to over threedozen individuals andcompanies for allegedly evading international sanctionsagainst Iran. Spokesman for Irans UN mission AlirezaMiryusefi criticized the Obama administrations actions,calling them a lack of the US government good faith,referring to recent cooperation between Iran and Westernpowers over Irans nuclear program.

In an address to his Cabinetof Ministers on TursdayPresident GurbangulyBerdymukhammedov announced plans to increase thecountrys export of electricity to Afghanistan. Electricityexport is one of the countrys leading branches of theeconomy and is expected to increase by 27.4 billionkilowatt/hours by 2020.

Mongolian lawmakers haveignored pressure from USlegislators, who are callingon them to rescind travel restrictions on an Americanbusinessman seeking to leave the country. Justin Kapla, theformer president of mining firm SouthGobi Sands, has notbeen allowed to leave Mongolia since October 2012, whenhe was identified as a witness in a high-level corruptioncase.

Baikonur aerodrome hasreleased its first rocket of2014, which launched a

resupply vehicle towards Russias International SpaceStation. Te vehicles 2.5 million tonnes of cargo includea container of goldfish as well as flatworms and mosquitolarvae. Te creatures are to be subjects in a Russian-Japanese experiment examining how closed ecologicalsystems respond to zero-gravity conditions.

ajikistans national energycompany announced onTursday that contrary to

statements it made last week, electricity prices wouldnot rise in the coming months, and that it had begunto pay off the roughly $4 million owed to its employeesin overdue salaries. Last week the company announcedthat its inability to pay its workers would necessitate arise in electricity tariffs, causing non-governmentalorganizations to question its financial management.

Uzbekistan had to suspendshipments of gas to theSouth Kazakhstan Oblast

this week because of a technical problem with the a gaspipeline. Pipeline management were forced to drasticallyreduce the gas flow, leaving thousands of residents ofShymkent in southern Kazakhstan without gas forcooking and heating. Authorities on Wednesday said thatthe pipe had been repaired and that they were resumingnormal operations.

ajikistan

Uzbekistan

Afghanistan

urkmenistan

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4/6

Country News DigestTe central bank of Estoniahas warned citizens to avoidpurchasing Bitcoins or other

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicdigital currencies, as the user must assume all risks, and thatthe currencies could be little more than Ponzi schemes.Part of this fear is likely related to Estonias economicrecession in 2008, reflecting caution on behalf of bankswho want investors to avoid risky, unregulated currencies.

Pragues mayor Hudecekannounced Wednesdaythat local authorities wouldnot help organize Ukrainian President Yanukovychs tripto Prague in April. Hudecek said they would not arrangeany social events or receive him at the town hall, andthat Yanukovych would not land at their airport. Pragueauthorities are also donating 500,000 Czech koruna inhumanitarian aid to support the Ukrainian opposition.

Latvia

Romania

Hungary

Poland

Authorities in the region ofNitra have come under firefor their handling of a neo-Nazi attack outside of a bar in October 2013. Te districtprosecutors failed to make arrests in the case until mediaoutlets published a video of the beatings last week. Tesuspects have been released as the investigation continues.One of their targets was reportedly the owner of the bar,an activist with the Slovak non-governmental watchdogorganization People Against Racism.

Te Hungarian legislaturehas approved a bilateralagreement with Russia,which will see Russian atomic energy company Rosatomconstruct two new reactors at Hungarys only power plantOpponents are criticizing the deal for its opaque biddingprocess and its potential to increase Hungarian dependenceon Russian energy.

On Tursday RomanianFinance Minister DanielChitiou announced hisresignation amid graft allegations against his wife andloss of support from his Liberal Party. Chitiou denies theresignation is due to his wifes scandal, and party sourcestold media that lost support of his policy after failing toinform party officials of plans to reschedule bank debts tolow income borrowers.

Ukrainian opposition figureDmitry Bulatov has takenrefuge in a Lithuanian

hospital after surfacing from a week-long abduction.Doctors at the hospital in Vilnius have confirmed thatBulatovs wounds are consistent with torture. Afterpressure from foreign diplomats, Ukrainian authoritieshave agreed to drop charges of organizing mass disorderpreviously leveled against Bulatov.

Latvia stands to losemillions of euros due to aRussian ban on imported

pork. Te ban, instituted last week in response to aswine flu outbreak in Lithuania, will cost Latvia around13 million euros, according to a report released by theMinistry of Agriculture.

On Tursday the USgovernment returned toPoland an 18th century

painting that was looted by Nazi forces during WorldWar II. Te painting, titled St. Saint Philip Baptizing aServant of Queen Kandaki and vauled at $40,000, wasreturned to Polands US ambassador in New York aftermissing for 75 years.

Slovakia

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5/6

Country News DigestForeign Minister KristianVigenin told journalistsFriday that while he does

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatianot expect a decision on Bulgarias Schengen bid to beannounced before July, he does think this accession issuewould be resolved by the end of 2014. Vigenin said hewas optimistic about further negotiations later in theyear, but that the European Parliament elections in Maywould affect the timeline of further discussions.

Retired Croatian generalAnte Gotovina has beenremoved from the USreasury Departments blacklist after nearly eleven yearsGotovina was indicted by the Hague ribunal in 2001for war crimes allegedly committed following the 1995Croatian military offensive Operation Storm. In 2011 hewas convicted on eight counts and sentenced to 24 years injail, but he was fully acquitted in 2012.

Serbia

Macedonia

A controversy has eruptedin Montenegro regarding achurch fresco in Podgoricathat depicts ito, Marx, Engels, and others roasting in theflames of hell. Te painting was done in the newly builtChurch of Resurrection and has led to debates amongpriests and believers, many of whom feel that the paintingis inappropriate and that religion and politics shouldremain separate. Others feel the painting gives a fairrepresentation of crimes committed under communism.

Ongoing student protestsdemanding the resignationof a university dean inPristina turned violent when police used tear gas andpepper spray to disperse the crowd on Friday. Betweenfive and thirty police officers and a dozen protesters wereinjured when students starting throwing rocks and paint atthe deans office. Students are protesting because professorsare accused of publishing work in fake online journals toreceive academic credentials.

Over three days last week,Slovenia was hit by a seriesof severe blizzards, whichleft about 120,000 households without power and 1.2million acres of forest ravaged. Te southwestern part ofthe country was hit hardest, with railways, cars, gas stationsand AM machines icing over. Te Slovenian governmenthas requested material and technical assistance from itsneighbors under the EU civil protection mechanism.

Albanias environmentalministry has announced atwo-year ban on all hunting

in order to protect endangered fauna, including brownbears and eagles. Te ministry says it plans to use thetwo-year moratorium to establish stronger coordinationmechanisms with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whichissues hunting licenses, in order to facilitate legal andsustainable hunting once the ban elapses.

Due to extreme winterweather more than 1,000people have been evacuated

from cars, buses and trains by army, police, and emergencypersonnel in northern Serbia on Saturday. Snowfall andwind have created snowdrifts up to 3 meters high insome areas, causing the government to close roads andban boat travel on the Danube River.

On Saturday Macedoniaannounced April 13 asthe date for the next

presidential elections. Te current coalition governmentis led by the VMRO-DPMNE party, though theAlbanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) party,which represents the large ethnic Albanian population inMacedonia, has threatened to leave the coalition.

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Kosovo

Slovenia

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Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Workers in the northerntown of uzla havebeen protesting againstunemployment and governmental corruption sinceuesday, after factories were bankrupted and closed due toprivatization. Police have responded aggressively, throwingtear gas at the protesters, sparking parallel demonstrationsin other cities across the country. Te unemployment rate

in the country currently stands at 27.5%.

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