ceres news digest - week7, vol.3; oct.14-18

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Country News DigestVol.3, Issue #7

10/14/13-10/18/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

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

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2/6

Country News DigestAzerbaijans ForeignMinistry announcedWednesday that the

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Russiatreatment o Orkhan Zeynalov, the Azerbaijani migrantsuspected o the stabbing that prompted Sundays riots inMoscow, has violated every possible judicial procedure.He said that Azerbaijans embassy would provide consularsupport to Zeynalov, noting also that it was investigatingthe death o an Azeri man killed in Moscow this week.

Moscows Biryulyovodistrict was the scene o aRussian nationalist protest-turned-riot on Sunday ollowing the stabbing o an ethnicRussian, allegedly by a migrant worker rom Azerbaijan.In the wake o the events, Russian authorities on Mondayarrested hundreds o protestors and detained more than1,000 migrant workers in Moscow.

Armenia

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Ukraine

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President Yanukovichsignaled that ormer PrimeMinister Yulia ymoshenkocould be released rom prison or medical treatment inGermany prior to the Vilnius Summit in November.EU leaders have conditioned the proposed associationagreement with Ukraine on ymoshenkos release.ymoshenkos allies are still pushing the governmentto pardon her, since under the current proposed law shewould not be able to run in the 2015 presidential election.

Russias InvestigativeCommittee has openeda criminal case againstUralkali CEO Baumgertner, who is still under housearrest in Belarus on embezzlement charges. Baumgertner,arrested on suspicion o abuse o power, aces 12 years inprison i convicted. Te IC is preparing a request to haveBaumgertner extradited rom Belarus to ace chargesin Russia, in a move to deuse bilateral tensions and apotential trade war.

In a report releaseduesday, the EuropeanCommission AgainstRacism and Intolerance urged Moldova to take rmersteps to protect minority rights. Te report cites theconsiderable number o members o ethnic minoritieswithout identity documents, as well as a dearth o policeinvestigations into hate crimes, as examples o inadequateprogress.

Former deense ministerDavit Kezerashvili hasbeen detained in France

or 40 days while an extradition request rom Georgiais processed. Among other accusations, Kezerashvili hasbeen charged with accepting a bribe o $12 million tosmuggle ethyl alcohol into the country or illegal alcoholproduction.

An OSCE monitoringexercise along the southernpart o the Line o Contact

between the Armenian-controlled region o Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan was abandoned on Tursdaydue to reported shots red near observation points alongthe line. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each otheror the shots red.

Tis week, the urkisharmy shot at al Qaeda-linked militants (ISIL)

in Syria ater a stray bomb landed in urkish territory.Te attack is seen as a sign o growing tension along theborder between the two countries. While urkey hastaken retaliatory action against Syria in the past, this isthe rst time the country has targeted ISIL militants.

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3/6

Country News DigestKyrgyzstans SupremeCourt rejected an ocialcomplaint by the lawyer

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o jailed human rights activist Azimjon Askarov onWednesday. Te complaint alleges Askarov was torturedwhile in detention. Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek, wascharged with murder and inciting mass disorder duringthe inter-ethnic violence o 2010, and is serving a liesentence.

Te United States hascome to general terms withPresident Karzai regardinga post-2014 bilateral security agreement with Aghanistan.However, the issue o legal jurisdiction over the troopshas yet to be resolved. In the drat agreement, the UShas insisted they be subject to American jurisdiction, butPresident Karzai has said this demand will depend on theapproval o political and tribal leaders.

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IranDelegations rom Iranand the six powers met onOctober 15-16 in Genevato discuss Irans nuclear program. While details regardingthe meetings were not disclosed, a statement rom themeetings described the negotiations as substantive andorward-looking, and urther negotiations are expectedto occur in the ollowing months.

urkmenistan is hosting aninternational event ocusedon energy security entitledEnergy Security and sustainable development - theuture o OSCE. During the opening stages o the talks,President Berdymukhamedov addressed top UN andOSCE ocials as he called or closer energy ties with thetwo international organizations.

Ater months o tensenegotiations, MongoliasOyu olgoi mine is nallyproducing at maximum capacity. However, the project hasencountered another problem: Chinese customs ocials.Te project was supposed to export copper concentrate toChina as soon as it became operational, but disagreementswith Chinese customs ocials have orced the mine tostockpile its copper output instead.

Kazakhstans Senate votedWednesday to approvePresident Nazarbayevs

choice o career diplomat Kassym-Jomart okayev as thenew Senate Chairman. According to the constitution,the Chairman assumes the role o acting president i thepresident alls ill or dies in oce. okayevs appointmenthas prompted speculation that the 73-year-oldNazarbayev, whose health has come under question, maybe grooming his successor.

On October 16 a Swisstribunal declared thatalCo, a ajik aluminum

company and the countrys largest enterprise, owed $275million to the Russian aluminum giant Rusal or breacho agreements with a Rusal subsidiary in 2003. alCo,which uses approximately 40% o ajikistans electricity,made a $400 million counterclaim that was dismissed bythe tribunal.

Uzbeknetegaz releaseda statement this weekrepudiating reports that

the country was acing gas shortages and that somedistricts would have to rely heavily on improvisedsources o heat or the upcoming winter. Certainoreign internet publications are spreading unoundedrumors, reads the statement, which goes on to say thatgas supplies and inrastructure are, in act, improving.

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4/6

Country News DigestState-owned main gridcompany Elering boardchairman Veskimgi said

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Lithuania

Czech Republicthat Estonia should consider cutting ties to the Latvianand Lithuanian power markets through Nord Pool Spot(NPS). Currently all o Estonias energy trading goesthrough NPS, while Latvia and Lithuania are only partlyconnected, driving prices up or domestic consumers.

On October 16 CzechPresident Milos Zemanstated that the Czechgovernment is currently negotiating the release o twoCzech citizens kidnapped in Pakistan in March. Zemanhas indicated that the citizens are currently captivein Aghanistan or Pakistan, and has written PakistaniPresident Mamnoon Hussain about the incident.

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Slovakias policy onnational minorities is indispute ater a village insouthern Slovakia, inhabited mainly by Hungarians, votedto change its name to the original Hungarian name Pered.Te government denied the name change, on the groundsthat the Slovak name esedikovo has been used or 65years. Since 1991, the number o ethnic Hungarians livingin Slovakia has decreased by over 100,000, while numberso other ethnic minorities have increased.

Former high-rankingcommunist minister BelaBiszku has been chargedwith war crimes ollowing the anti-Soviet revolutionin Hungary in 1956. Among the charges are permittingmilitias to shoot indiscriminately into crowds duringrallies in 1956. Biszku is 92. I convicted, he would be therst ormer communist ocial to be held accountable orhis actions during the Soviet-backed regime.

ransport Minister RamonaManescu said October 14that privatization plans orgovernment rail reight carrier CFR Mara have allenthrough. Romanian company Grup Feroviar Roman wasthe sole bidder. However, the deal was halted becausethe government said GFR had ailed to pay by the setdeadline. Te privatization process, which is a conditiono an EU aid agreement, will be relaunched at anundisclosed date.

On Turdsday the UNGeneral Assembly votedLithuania to a two-

year term to the UN Security Council. Securing theminimum 2/3 vote with 187 votes, Lithuania and ourother countries will begin their two-year terms onJanuary 1 o next year.

Claiming that the ruitsand vegetables availableto Latvians requently

taste like rubber, Uzbek Foreign Economic Relations,Investment, and rade Minister Elyor Ganiyev calledor the establishment o an Uzbek produce distributioncenter in the Baltic country during an economic orumthis week. Latvian ocials characterized the venture aspromising.

A traditional Muslimceremonial practice thatrequires slitting a conscious

animals throat has led to confict in Poland. Animalrights activists protested the practice during the Eid al-Adha holiday, saying that the rite violates a Polish lawstating that animals must be stunned beore being killed.Religious leaders have deended the practice by sayingthat the right to reely practice religion is guaranteed bythe Polish constitution.

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5/6

Country News DigestA European EnvironmentAgency report announcedthat Bulgaria has the worst

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Croatiaair pollution in the EU. According to the study, thecountry has the highest concentrations o particulatesrom smokestacks and gas, as well as carbon monoxideand suler dioxide, causing asthma and cancer. Locals citethe use o wood or home heating and Soviet productionacilities as leading actors or the poor air quality.

alks between Croatiaand Serbia have stalleddue to disagreements overthe withdrawal o genocide-related lawsuits. CroatianForeign Minister Vesna Pusic has made contradictorystatements, rst saying that the lawsuit should be droppedbut later saying that the suit will remain until Serbia hasmet earlier determined preconditions. Croatia rst ledcharges in 1999. Serbia countersued in 2009.

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Macedonia

At a meeting October14, European CouncilPresident Van Rompuytold Montenegrin President Vujanovic that Montenegrowas ready to expand EU accession negotiations toinclude issues related to the judiciary, media reedom, andsecurity. Van Rompuy said recent constitutional reormshad strengthened judicial independence, but more workwas needed to improve transparency and eciency inpublic administration.

Serbias minister orKosovo, Aleksandr Vulin,is alleged to have enteredKosovo illegally on Tursday, deying a travel ban issuedMonday. A high-ranking Kosovo ocial said Vulin hadbeen banned ater taking part in activities related tothe campaign or Kosovos November elections. Vulindeended his actions, saying the EU Rule o Law Missionhad not prohibited his entry.

Slovenian authoritiesuncovered and broke upan alleged drug ring thisweek. As a result o the operation, police arrested twelvesuspected drug trackers, and seized drugs valued atover one million euros. Experts believe that Sloveniasgeographic position lends itsel to being the port o entryor Europe-bound drugs shipped rom South Americaand the Middle East.

Te European Commissionendorsed Albanias EUcandidacy in its yearly

enlargement report, which was released Wednesday. TeCommission praised Albania or conducting smoothand orderly parliamentary elections in May, and ortaking steps to establish a more politically independentcivil service. Te report, however, stressed the continuingneed to fght corruption and organized crime.

Preparation or talks oEU accession have led tonotable political progress

and stability in Serbia, the EU reports. EnlargementCommissioner tean Fle has commended the countryor its recent strides, especially in regards to improvedrelations with its neighbor, Kosovo. Accession talks areslated or January 2014.

Tis week, MacedoniasPrime Minister, NikolaGruevski, announced that

the unemployment rate in the country has dropped rom38% to 28.8%. While the rate is still high, the decreaseis an encouraging sign o the countrys overall economicimprovement ollowing stagnation in 2012.

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Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Tis week the InternationalCommission on MissingPersons orensics teamshave exhumed 150 bodies rom a mass grave site in thenorthern town o omasica. A team rom Te HaguesWar Crimes ribunal has called it one o the biggest massgrave sites rom the Bosnian civil war o the 1990s, andhas said that evidence collected rom the grave could be

used in high-prole proescutions o war criminals.

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

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