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Country News DigestTe leaders o Armenia andAzerbaijan have agreed tore-start peace talks over

Azerbaijan

Georgia

RussiaNagorno-Karabakh in Paris this weekend. Tis renewedeort may have been prompted by OSCE SecretaryGeneral Lamberto Zanniers expression o concern overthe lack o progress toward a resolution in the regionearlier this week.

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Rosnet, Russias state oilcompany, announced itsdecision to buy BPs 50%stake in its Russian venture NK-BP in a deal estimatedto be worth $26 billion. President Vladimir Putin statedhe had misgivings about the deals impact on Russiasprivatization plans, but said he hoped it would increaseRosnets transparency.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Turkey

Ukraines parliamentaryelections are to be heldthis Sunday, and are beinginterpreted as a litmus test or the countrys democraticpotential. Western ocials are hoping that the electionswill be ree and air, but they are already citing concerns.

Ater the European Unionrenewed sanctions againstBelarus or human rightsviolations, the President Lukashenko suggested thatEurope does not airly compensate Belarus or actingas a bulwark against the movement o illegal migrantswestward. He claimed to have stopped about 10,000migrants a year rom making it into the EU, a policy thathe is considering abandoning. due to Europes sanctions.

Enlargement & EuropeanNeighborhood Commis-sioner tean Fle has calledMoldova the Eastern Partnerships most prominent mem-ber and stated that Moldova deserves the prospect o EUmembership. Tis year, or the rst time, EU assistance toMoldova will surpass 100 million.

Georgias Parliament con-rmed Bidzina Ivanishvilias Prime Minister on

Tursday this week in its new location o Kutaisi, Georgiassecond-largest city. Animosity between members oIvanishvilis Georgia Dream coalition and PresidentMikheil Saakashvili continues as Prime MinisterIvanishvilis inconsistent and laid-back demeanor raisequestions about his readiness to lead the country.

On Wednesday at anArmenian parliamentarymeeting, opposition MP

Levon Zurabyan alleged the Armenian government hassold has sold its 20 percent stake in ArmRusGaspromto Russias Gazprom, who already owns 80% o the jointRussian-Armenian gas company. Armenian energyminister Armen Movsisyan denied the accusation andstated the Armenian government is still negotiating theprice o gas imports with Gazprom.

At a roundtable discussionwith urkish academics onuesday, the vice chairman

o the Joint Chies o Sta, Adm. James Winneeld,implied the US will not get involved in creating a saehaven inside Syria. Also this week US Army EuropeCommander Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling stated the UShas a relatively ew number o US army personnel inurkey, but that the US and urkey have been sharingintelligence.

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Country News DigestTe Kyrgyz NationalSecurity Committee alongwith the Russian FSB

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

broke up a drug smuggling operation transporting drugsrom ajikistan to Russia via Kyrgyzstan. Te joint orcesarrested a ajik national with 4kg heroin and 6kg hashish.Te case will be heard in Russia.

Special A-Pak rep., MarcGrossman, caused a stirin Aghanistan when hestated that the US views the Durand Line establishedby British India and Aghanistan in 1893 as themodern day border between Aghanistan and Pakistan.Te Aghan oreign ministry critisized the statement.Aghanistan has rejected the Durand Line since 1947.

Mongolia

IranHead o the Judiciary,Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani,has barred PresidentAhmadinejad rom visiting a jailed ormer aide at aehran prison. In response Ahmadinejad accused Larijanio protecting certain people rom corruption charges.Te aide - Ali Akbar Javanekr was Ahmadinejadspress advisor and head o the ocial Islamic RepublicNews Agency until his imprisonment in September orinsulting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

urkmenistans President,Gurbanguly Berdymu-khammedov issued pardonsto 2,000 prisoners this week in honor o his countrys 21stanniversary o independence on Oct. 27th. Tis continuesa practice begun by ormer President SarparmuratNiyazov, who issued such pardons once per year duringRamadan.

U.S. Coal Miner PeabodyEnergy is eager to resumetalks with Mongolia overdeveloping the western block o the avan olgoi deposit.Peabody was part o a consortium that was to develop thisarea, but talks broke down ater the Mongolian SecurityCouncil rejected the bid. State-owned Erdenes avanolgoi has invited Peabody Energy during the interimperiod.

Te Kazakh governmenthas lowered its estimate orGDP growth rom 5.8%

to 5.4%. Te all is partially due to the all in demand,prices or metal exports as well as the severe drought thatimpacted grain exports. In May President Nazarbayevhad orecasted a 7% increase, similar to last years level.

Te Human RightsWatch has condemnedthe governments move

to close down Amparo. Amparo consists o more thanorty activists who work on a range o issues includingallegations o torture and army conscripts rights. Tegroup was ound by a court in northern ajikistan to havebeen operating without a license.

Last week Uzbekistannished its annual cottonharvest and hosted the 8th

International Uzbek Cotton and extile Fair. PresidentKarimov said that the harvest amounted to over 3.35million tons o cotton. Uzbekistan has emerged as a majorglobal cotton exporter but is still hounded by internationalgroups or its utilization o child labor during the harvest.

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Country News DigestAs o Friday, healthcareworkers in Estoniahave ended their strike.

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech RepublicAccording to the agreement that they signed,physicianswill get paid or the ull 40 hours they work instead o thecurrent 32, minimum wage will increase, and workloadswill be reduced in outpatient care by 20% and inpatientcare by 13%.

Te ruling center-rightODS party had anothersetback this week whenthey suered a sound deeat in Senate elections at thehands o the Social Democratic party (CSSD). Althoughthe ODS party no longer holds the majority in the upperhouse, its majority in the lower house allows it to remainin power but will make planned scal cuts more dicult.

Latvia

Romania

Hungary

Poland

Te EU Court o Justiceound or Slovakia in itsdispute with Hungaryover alleged violation o the ree movement agreement.In 2009, the sitting President o Hungary attempted butwas not allowed to attend the unveiling o a monumentin Slovakia on the anniversary o military intervention byWarsaw Pact troops (including Hungarians) to quell thePrague Spring uprising o 1968.

Demonstrators burnedan Israeli fag in ront oEuropes largest synagogueon uesday in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarys nationalistparty Jobbik is suspected, and the partys leadership hasspoken out against Jewish business interests in Hungary.Te Hungarian government strongly condemned the fagburning and the sentiments behind it.

Te International MonetaryFund (IMF) said Romaniaseconomic recovery is in aragile state. Te country is expected to grow at 0.9% in2012 and 2.5% in 2013.

Chevron has enteredLithuania by acquiringa 50% stake in local

company LL Investicijos. Te US-London companylooks to invest in shale gas exploration. Te Lithuaniangovernment has set a goal or energy independencerom Russia.

Te Riga Central DistrictCourt ruled ConstitutionalCourt Judge Vineta

Muizniece is guilty o orgery, and has been ordered topay a ne worth ten minimum wages - LVL 2,000. Tesentence will be available on November 8, ater whichMuizniece will have 10 working days to le an appeal.

Te Polish Minister oSport resigned this weekater a controversial

incident in which a World Cup qualiying match betweenPoland and England in Warsaw had to be rain-delayed.Te acility that hosted the match is equipped with aretractable roo, which those in charge o the event ailedto close despite heavy rain.

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Country News DigestTe question o whetherto halt construction othe Belene nuclear power

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiaplant will go to a reerendum. Te Bulgarian governmentearlier this all had said it would scrap plans to constructthe plant; this drew numerous payment demands romthe proposed plants Russian builder, Rosatom Corps.

Germany wants Croatiato join the EU by summer2013. Merkel says that shelooks orward to Croatia joining the EU by July 1st.

Serbia

Macedonia

A riot erupted shortlybeore the scheduled tip-o o a basketball gamebetween Partizan and Buducnost in Montenegros capitalcity, Podgorica. According to reports, Partizan anstaunted Buducnost ans with chants who then respondedby invading the court. Riot police quickly regained controlo the situation. wenty-one ans and our police ocerswere injured in the incident.

Ater committing to athaw in relations in orderto hasten integration intothe European Union, the Prime Ministers o Kosovo andSerbia met ocially or the rst time in history this week.In response to the move, opposition hardliners in Kosovoheld a protest that escalated into violence and was onlydispersed when police deployed tear-gas on the crowd.

Te European Commissionhas reerred Slovenia tothe European Court oJustice over its ailure to completely implement the EUselectricity and gas directives into its legislation in regardsto the use o pesticide, landlls and rail interoperability.Slovenia previously received warnings in September 2011and June o this year.

Ater 31 days o campingout, the group o

Communist-era dissidents are ocially ending theirhunger strike, citing exhaustion and political pressure.Tey will not give up their ght and have stated thatthey will continue protesting in other ways.

Illegal immigration intoBritain has worsened asdroves o immigrants

rom Serbia and Macedonia have entered the countryrequesting asylum. Europe does not impose a visa-regime,and visa-ree travel is key or these immigrants to try andnd a better lie.

Macedonian authorities areseeking to pass a new lawgoverning deamation and

libel. Although the law decriminalizes libel, it raises theminimum ne or libel to a much higher level. NGOsclaim this law will lead to widespread sel-censorship anddiscourage people rom becoming journalists. Te lawwould also heavily ne internet service providers whoenable users to post libelous material.

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Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Te city o Srebrenicaelected Camil Durakovicas its new mayor this week;continuing Muslim rule o the city since ater the 1995massacre. Mr. Durakovic enjoyed signicant support romabsentee voters, who or the rst time were not organizedby Bosnias international peace overseers.

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