CERES News Digest: Vol.2, Issue #7 - Feb.22 - March 01, 2013

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Country News DigestVol.2, Issue #7

02/25/13-03/01/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

Contributors:-Joseph Gates-Matthew OBrien-Bree Swineford-Jillian Tetirick-Grace Tran

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2/6

Country News DigestBP stated that AzerbaijansCaspian Project posted adecrease in crude output

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiaor the second year in a row. It was reported that Azericrude rom the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli eld had allen7 percent, which indicates a aster all than expected. Asa result o the decrease in output, Azeri President IlhamAliev uriously accused BP o misleading them.

Georgias envoy to RussiaZurab Abashidze met withRussian Foreign MinisterGrigory Karasin in Prague on Friday. Te two discussednormalizing trade relations, as well as improving culturalties and transportation issues.

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

Turkey

Te Internet Party, recentlyabolished by a court rulingdue to possessing noregional oces, protested by sending Darth Vader andImperial Stormtroopers to the Ministry o Justice todeliver the partys charter. Te group was denied accessto the building by security but no arrests were made. Avideo o the event can be ound by ollowing the R linkbelow.

Belarusian PresidentAleksander Lukashenkowarned business ownersagainst nancing the political opposition, which hereerred to as the th column, saying that he wouldconsider them involved in a political struggle, a ghtagainst the state. Lukashenko also said businessesshould do more to help modernize the state and undsocial welare programs.

Prime Minister Vlad Filathas reused to step downater the speaker o theParliament asked or his resignation on Monday. In hisreusal, Filat accused the maa o being behind the no-condence vote against him. Te country is likely headedtowards early elections as the governing coalition is heavilyractured.

Te Georgian presidentMikhaeil Saakashviliimplied that Russian

ocials sent to inspect Georgian wine and mineral waterproduction acilities desired bribes. Russia has threatenedto withdraw the inspectors, and thus dash hopes orenewing imports o Georgian wine and mineral water, ithe President continues to issue such statements.

Ra Hovannisian, therunner-up in the Armenianpresidential election, has

continued to hold rallies in the Yerevan disputing theresults o the election. Despite Hovannisians allegations,oreign monitors have given the election a qualiedthumbs up.

US Secretary o State JohnKerry ew to Ankara todiscuss the conict in Syria.

Hanging over the visit is Prime Minister Recep ayyipErdogans controversial comment on how Zionism isa crime against humanity. In addition to discussingurkish-US bilateral relations and the Syrian CivilWar, Kerry is expected to urge urkey to work towardsnormalizing relations with Israel.

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Articles:Radio Free Europe DF Watch

Articles:RFERL Georgia Online

Articles:Reuters Bloomberg

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Country News DigestAn Uzbek reugee livingin Kyrgyzstan has beenreported missing or two

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Kazakhstan

weeks. Shukhrat Musin ed Uzbekistan in 2007. Uzbekauthorities requested his extradition in 2011, saying thathe was a member o the outlawed Islamic Movement oUzbekistan (IMU). Musins wie led a missing personsreport with the police in Bishkek on February 19.

wenty Aghan policeocers were killed thisweek in attacks by memberso the aliban who managed to inltrate the ranks o thepolice in Ghazni province. In response, ocials havestressed the need to conduct a more thorough vettingprocess or police recruits.

Mongolia

IranCommentators have beencautiously optimistic intheir reports on the resumedP5+1 talks on Irans nuclear program, which took placein Almaty, Kazakhstan this week. Irans representativescalled the revised proposal more realistic and ofered tocontinue negotiations in the near uture. Among otherconcessions, the P5+1 have ceased to demand closure othe Fordow nuclear plant, instead requiring Iran to stopstockpiling 20% enriched uranium.

President GurbangulyBerdymuhamedov recentlysigned a decree to open a

urkmen consulate in Astrakhan, Russia. Te countryhopes to increase its exports o building materials,especially that o cement and petroleum, to Astrakhan.

Te dispute between theMongolian governmentand the investment groupRio into over the Oyu olgoi mine has grown moretense this week. Te Mongolian government claims thatRio into owes interest payments on unpaid taxes on theproject, while Rio into asserts that it paid the taxes inadvance and owes nothing.

Tis weeks negotiationson Irans nuclear programin Almaty have boosted

Kazakhstans international diplomatic standing andplaced the Central Asian country on the map in termso non-prolieration eforts. Kazakhstan has previouslybacked the creation o a World Bank or Uranium, evenas it has expanded its own uranium mining and exportactivities.

On a trip to Dushanbe lastweek, Assistant Secretary oState or South and Central

Asia Robert Blakes comments that he didnt expect thatthe [withdrawal] operation [rom Aghanistan] will takeplace through ajikistan triggered media speculationthat the US was shiting its policies. Tis week a StateDepartment spokesman said the assistant secretary wasonly reerring to troops, not equipment. Te UK is alsoreported to be negotiating transport through ajikistan.

Rumors have circulatedthat Coca-Cola is shuttingdown its actory in

ashkent ater bottles o coke became so scarce that a1.5-liter bottle was being sold or $10. On uesday a topCoca-Cola ocial denied the rumors, saying everythingwas business as usual. However, the imes o Central Asiareported that the plant had closed. Gulnara Karimovatook over the rm ater she divorced its ormer executiveMansur Maqsudi.

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4/6

Country News DigestEstonian MP KajaKallas, Chairman o theParliamentary Economic

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech RepublicCommittee, is calling or an LNG acility on the southerncoast o the country rather than in Finland, the currentavored location. Estonian gas company Vorguteenussays maintenance o the terminal will be too costly orthe small Baltic state.

Te Czech Senate willdebate bringing treasoncharges against outgoingpresident, Vaclav Klaus. Te charges relate to Klaussuse o presidential amnesty powers. In addition togranting nearly 6,000 pardons, Klaus stopped the legalproceedings in a number o high-prole cases related tonancial raud.

Latvia

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Hungary

Poland

Slovakia will go ahead withplans to add an additional160 military personnelto their Aghanistan contingent. Slovakia currently has253 soldiers deployed in Aghanistan supporting Aghanorces as they prepare to assume greater responsibilities inthe wake o the planned U.S. withrdrawal.

Hungary is seeking a loanrom China in order tocomplete a massive railwayproject linking it to Western Europe. Te proposedrailroad would bypass Budapest, alleviating traccongestion and reducing travel times dramatically.

On Wednesday theRomanian gangster IonBalints pets, consisting oour lions and two bears, were sedated by environmentalauthorities and will be temporarily housed in a zoo.Nicknamed Nutzu the Pawnbroker, Balint was rumoredto have used his animals to intimidate rivals. Balintwas arrested last week on charges o attempted murder,kidnapping, blackmail, and possession o illegal weapons.

Lithuanias governmenthas delayed announcingthe winners o its shale gas

exploration tender in light o protests in Vilnius thisweek. Some 500 protesters gathered in the center othe countrys capital city to express concerns about theenvironmental and economic impacts o using shale gas.

British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron visitedLatvia this week, voicing

his support or Latvian OECD membership andadvocating closer economic and political ties to Britain.PM Camerons visit was the rst ever by a Prime Ministerto the small Baltic country.

Poland is experiencinga business boom due tooutsourcing rom Western

countries. Krakow was ranked number 10 or globaloutsourcing destination cities in 2012. Reasons orPolands attractiveness to oreign companies include laborcosts that are hal the rates in Western Europe, as well aslarge numbers o university graduates with technologyand language skills.

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5/6

Country News DigestProtesters invited toBulgarian PresidentPlevnelievs Public Council

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiawalked out, proclaiming that they could not sit at a tablewith the people that they were ghting. Plevneliev invitedaround 35 representatives rom NGOs, trade unionorganizations, and environmental agencies to gure outa structure or the Public Council.

A report revealed thisweek that Saudi Arabiawas unneling arms boughtrom Croatia to Syrian rebels. Although Croatia deniedthe reports, it withdrew its troops rom a UN orceguarding the Golan Heights in a precautionary move.

Serbia

Macedonia

Te IMF has called onMontenegro to cut publicspending in order tomaintain or improve economic output in the country.Montenegro is largely considered to be behind Croatiaon the list o states to join the EU, and controlling publicexpenditures is an area that needs improvement beoreany possible accession.

On uesday, Kosovar PrimeMinister Hashim Tacicalled on the US to supportKosovo in reusing to grant the Serbian minority morerights, citing security concerns. His statements precedeKosovo and Serbias next talk, which concerns the rightso the ethnic Serbs living in Northern Kosovo, who donot recognize the countrys independence.

Te Slovenia PeoplesParty has announced thatthey will leave PM Jansascoalition government; it will become the third party todo so ollowing recent allegations o corruption againstJansa. Te deection leaves Jansa with only 30 seats in the90 seat legislature as a no-condence vote is due by theend o the week.

German Foreign MinisterGuido Westerwelleexpressed his support o

Albanias EU membership on a visit to the capital cityo irana. However, the oreign minister also warnedagainst recent Albanian nationalist rhetoric, saying that,redrawing o national boundaries is out o the question,including the Balkans.

Te State Auditors Ocehas initiated charges againstnumerous government

ocials over misappropriation o 2011 budgetary unds.Te allegations cover a range o economic and criminalcharges and name 319 people as part o the investigation.Serbia has been working hard to tackle corruption as parto its progress towards EU membership.

On uesday, heavy rainsdestroyed arm lands andhomes in the northeast o

Macedonia. Te National Crisis Center stated that thePistica Dam was in critical condition and that more than10 rivers had overowed and swept away two bridges.

Articles:Bloomberg Edmonton Journal

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6/6

Country News Digest

Bosnia &Herzegovina

Te government o theSerbian entity in Bosnia,the Republic o Srpsk (RS),resigned on Wednesday. RS President Milorad Dodiksaid the current ruling coalition will remain in power,but that some o the ministers would be replaced. OnMarch 2 the prime minster-designate will request thatparliament select a date to elect the new government.

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Articles:Eurasia Review B92
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CERES News Digest: Vol.2, Issue #7 - Feb.22 - March 01, 2013