CERES News Digest - Week8, Vol.3; Oct.21-25

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Country News DigestVol.3, Issue #8

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Editor: Eugene Imas

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

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2/6

Country News DigestIlham Aliyev, elected toa third term as presidentOctober 9, announced his

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russianew cabinet Monday. Changes include the dismissal oSaar Abiyev, who had served as Deense Minister since2005. Observers say a dispute with the US embassy, as wellas allegations o rampant hazing-related violence in themilitary, may be behind Abiyevs dismissal. He is replacedby Zahir Hasanov, ormer head o internal troops.

On Monday six peoplewere killed and 31hospitalized ater a suicidebomber attacked a bus in the southern city o Volgograd.Te suspect has been identied as 30 year-old NaidaAsiyalova rom Dagetstan. Russian authorities arecurrently searching or her husband, Dmitri Sokolov,who is a suspected accomplice in the attack.

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Heavyweight boxer VitaliKlitschko announcedOctober 24 that he will runor president o Ukraine in 2015. Klitschko, elected toparliament in 2012 as head o the pro-Western Udar party,says his decision to run is in response to a parliamentarybill barring candidates who have lived outside Ukrainein the past 10 years rom running. Klitschko, who haslived in Germany, says he is not intimidated and wantsUkraine to modernize.

Te elegraph reported thatBelarus is misappropriatingEuropeAid unds by usingthem to train and equip the countrys police orce andborder guards. Te EU has conrmed the purchase opolice equipment with the unds, but say the goal was tocurb human and drug tracking. Dissidents claim theequipment prevents the regimes opponents rom leavingBelarus. UK leaders are calling on the EU to reconsideraid to Belarus in light o its human rights record.

Moldovas ruling Liberalparty survived a no-condence motion putorth by the Socialist and Communist parties Monday.Te opposition claimed the regime had committedtreason by establishing checkpoints at the boundary oransnitria. Prime Minister Leanca says the checkpointswill not restrict the movements o ransnistrians, butare intended to prevent oreigners rom enteringMoldova illegally via the breakaway region.

A renewed call or Georgiato boycott the SochiOlympics has arisen ater a

Russian military pilot shot down in the 2008 Russian-Georgian conict was chosen as an Olympic torchbearer.While President Saakashvili called or a Georgianboycott o the games as early as 2010, the idea ell out oavor when current Prime Minister Ivanishvilis politicalparty gained prominence. Ivanishvili has urged cautionwhen deciding whether or not to boycott.

On October 22 the 14thArmenia-EU CooperationCommittee convened in

Yerevan. Despite EU concerns over Armenias recentdecsion to join the Russia-led Customs Union, EUDirector or Countries o Eastern Europe, SouthernCaucasus and Central Asia stressed the EUscommittment to continue and expand cooperation withArmenia, namely in the areas o political reorm andeconomic growth.

wo urkish pilots whowere kidnapped in Augustwere released on Saturday

by their Lebanese captors in exchange or the release onine Lebanese hostages being held in Syria. Te pilotswere captured in a retaliatory act, ater Syrian oppositionorces took nine Lebanese religious pilgrims hostage andaccused them o having ties to Hezbollah. Also undernegotiation is the release o women currently being heldin Syrian prisons.

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3/6

Country News DigestKyrgyzstans parliamentvoted October 23 to rejecta deal with Canadian

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company Centerra Gold regarding shares in the Kumtormine. Te deal, drated by Centerra and Prime MinisterSatybaldiyev in September, would have increasedKyrgyzstans share rom roughly 33 to 50 percent.Parliament says the government should press or a 67percent share in the mine, a goal the PM says is naive.

wo Aghans were killedand our injured in asuicide bombing in Kabulthis week. Te bombers targeted a compound known asGreen Village, where many international contractors andocials reside. Insurgents attempted to breach the wallso the compound immediately ollowing the detonation,but ailed.

Mongolia

IranOn Wednesday AhmedShaheed, the UN specialhuman rights monitor orIran, published a report condemning Iran or rampanthuman rights abuses. Abuses cited include limits on reespeech and the media, and a large number o executions.Iran has rejected the allegations in the report as alse andpolitically motivated.

Tis week marks the peako cotton harvesting seasonin urkmenistan. Ocialreports indicate a harvest o 971,492 thousand tons ocotton as o Tursday. urkmenistans cotton industrypractices have come under re rom international critics,who have accused urkmenistan o the wide-scale use ochild labor in the harvest.

Rio into has resolved along-standing customsdispute with China,meaning that it will nally be allowed to export copperrom its Oyu olgoi mining project to China. Althoughthis marks the successul completion o the mines rstphase, the largely Canadian-owned Rio into has haltedwork on the massive second phase as it negotiates withthe Mongolian government.

A Youube video depictinga multi-generationalKazakh commune o sel-

described jihadists in Syria, caused a stir in Kazakhstansonline community this week. Government spokespersonssay they are investigating the videos authenticity, in orderto determine its implications or the regimes ght againstradical Islam in Kazakhstan. Several o those shown inthe video have been identied by the press as natives othe central industrial province o Karagandy.

A delegation led byAghan president HamidKarzai visited ajikistans

president Emomali Rahmon on October 21. Tepresidents discussed shared security concerns, includingmine clearance, the insurance sector, and transportation,within the context o next years scheduled NAO troopdrawdown.

Eight have now died inUzbekistans cotton eldssince start o the annual

harvest in September. A 16-year old with a pre-existingheart condition died October 21 ater picking therequired daily quota o 20 kg. Causes o the previousdeaths include stabbing, suicide, and sufocation under apile o cotton. Despite calls or an international boycott,last week authorities reported signing cotton contractstotaling $1 billion with various trade partners.

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4/6

Country News DigestEstonia is accusing Russiao interering with allinsmayoral elections. Russia

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Lithuania

Czech Republiccharged mayoral candidate Eerik-Niiles Kross withorganized piracy and placed him on Interpols wanted liston the eve o elections. Preliminary voting showed thatKross lost the election. Interpol claims that the timing wascoincidental.

Due to extensive workerstrikes in Germany,internet company Amazonannounced on uesday that it will open two distributioncenters in the Czech Republic by the end o 2014. Teopening o these centers is expected to create 4,000jobs and an additional 6,000 temporary jobs aroundChristmas.

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Poland

By March 2014, the seeds ocannabis sativa are slated tobe dropped rom Sloveniaslist o narcotics. Tis week the Health Ministry drew up aproposal to this efect, which still needs to be conrmed bythe parliament and the president. Te proposal states thatthe seeds o cannabis sativa do not contain cannabinoids,but that the plants will remain on the list o orbiddensubstances. Te possession or cultivation o the plant willstill be illegal.

Rallies in Budapest thisweek commemorated the1956 anti-Soviet uprising,but also united opposition orces ahead o the springparliamentary elections. Prime Minister Victor Orbansspeech at the rally condemned the socialist party byconnecting them to the damage done to the country in1956. Orban, however, is widely viewed as the drivingorce behind the recent scaling back o political checks andbalances.

Tree Romanians havepleaded guilty to stealingseven paintings rom theKunsthal museum in 2012. Te works have not beenound, and Olga Dogaru, the mother o one o thedeendants, told investigators she burned the paintings.Te accused ringleader, Radu Dogaru, is suing theKunsthal or negligence, claiming it was too easy to stealthe pieces. I they are ound guilty, they will have to coverpart o the cost o the insurance claims.

Lithuanian presidentDalia Grybauskait hostedPalestinian National

Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Vilnius onSunday. Following the meeting Grybauskait called oran end to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, whichhave risen by 70% year-on-year in the rst hal o 2013,

A petition to remove amonument to Soviettroops in World War II

in Riga has garnered over 10,000 signatures, while acounter-petition has collected over 5,000. Russia, andRussian-speaking Latvians, have criticized the petition asa move intended to rehabilitate the Nazis, while othershave characterized the petition as an attempt to drum-up populist support beore 2014 Parliamentary elections.

Te European Court oHuman Rights has ruledthat Russia should not

have reused requests to declassiy documents pertainingto the Katyn massacre, but that the court did not havejurisdiction to judge whether the Russian investigationinto the massacre was adequate. Many Polish relatives ovictims have claimed the Russian government has beencavalier in its treatment o their requests or inormationabout the killings.

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5/6

Country News DigestBulgarian parliamentextended a moratoriumon land purchases by

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Albania

Croatiaoreigners through 2020, despite EU threats to reviewits accession treaty as a result. Te ban was set to expireJanuary 1. Bulgarian armland sells or ten times lowerthan the EU average; leaders o the Ataka party say thelegislation is to prevent the plundering o Bulgarias mostvaluable resource.

Croatia, Hungary, andUkraine have agreed toextend existing natural gaspipelines in order to connect them to the planned rans-Adriatic pipeline. Croatian Deputy Foreign MinisterJosko Klisovic has said the pipeline will allow newaccess to Eastern European markets, and has said primeministers rom the three countries are ready to sign a pacton the deal soon.

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At the rst ever PrideParade in PodgoricaOctober 20, police arrested60 anti-gay rights protesters trying to disrupt the march.Te police red tear gas at the protesters, who werethrowing stones and rebombs at ocers protecting themarchers. Te attackers did not manage to break throughpolice lines to reach the participants, and the gay rightsdemonstrators were evacuated to a sae location ater themarch.

Members o a Roma amilydeported to Kosovo romFrance in early October

were beaten this week in the city o Mitrovica. Te attackdid not appear to be related to the deportation. However,it attracted additional media attention to a amily whoseexpulsion rom France prompted a public outcry overthat countrys increasingly harsh treatment o its Romapopulation. Te amily have told press they hope toreturn to France.

A group o Eurozonenancial ministers hassignalled that they areprepared to provide emergency unds to Slovenia shouldthe country require an international bailout. Te decisionwill ultimately rest on the results o stress tests thatwill be released in November and December. In themeantime, ocials have urged Slovenia to continue withscal reorms.

Albanias parliament votedTursday to approve anemergency revision to

the state budget, which cuts spending by 275 millioneuros. Finance Minister Shkelqim Cani said the cut wasnecessary in light o a 6.2% budget defcit and a publicdebt projected to grow to 71% o GDP by the end o theyear. Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, who replacedveteran Conservative Sali Berisha in June, accuses hispredecessor o initiating ununded public works projects.

Tis week the DemocraticParty o Serbia submitteda drat amendment to the

parliament to prevent the production and trade o GMOsin the country. According to the party, 70% o Serbiansoppose GMOs in the country, and the bill is meant toreect this. However, the EU has ordered Serbia to dropthe ban, as it requires all members to reely trade GMOs.

Macedonian journalistomislav Kezarovski wassentenced to 4.5 years in jail

on Monday or releasing the name o a murder witnessin an article he wrote in 2008. In February, the witnessrevealed that he had given alse testimony ater beingthreatened by the police. Several journalistic reedom andhuman rights groups have decried the sentence, callingit excessive and a serious blow to reedom o speech andthe media.

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On Tursday the head othe International MonetaryFund mission in Bosnia,Ruben Atoya, stated that it will consider Bosnias requestto expand its standby loan agreement in November.Bosnias 2013 economic growth is orecasted at around1%, and GDP growth is orecasted at 2% or 2014 and3.5% or 2015.

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