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Country News Digest Vol.4, Issue #2

01/20/14-01/24/14

Editor: Eugene Imas

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


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Country News Digest On Tursday AzerbaijaniForeign Minister ElmarMammadyarov agreed

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiato meet with his Armenian counterpart to discuss thecrisis over Nagorno-Karabakh. Te talks follow a weekof border skirmishes that have resulted in the death ofone Azerbaijani soldier and accusations from Baku thatArmenia has violated a ceasere agreement.

In a rare interview with Te New Yorker this week, NSA whistleblowerEdward Snowden adamantly stated that he wasundercover Russian spy. US legislators have vinvestigate whether Snowden cooperated with intelligence services while working as an NSA cSnowden called their suspicions absurd, sayingwith no assistance from anyone, let alone a gov

Armenia

Moldova

Belarus

Ukraine

urkey

Protests in Kiev haveturned violent, with threeprotesters now pronounceddead - two from police shootings, one from fallithe protest site. Over the last week, clashes bprotesters and police officers have escalated sigas oppositionists respond to a series of restrictpassed last week aimed at curbing the mass pMembers of the opposition say these laws restspeech and the right to demonstrate.

President Lukashenka saidat a press conference on Wednesday that he wouldconsider amnesty for imprisoned activist Ales BBialitsky, who chairs the Belarusian human righViasna, has been in jail since 2011, when he was with tax evasion. Human rights defenders connimprisonment to Lukashenkas 2011 anti-oppcrackdown, which followed mass protests duhiscontroversial re-election that year.

A court in Moldova hasruled that a referendumscheduled by the authorities of the autonomousof Gaguazia for February 2 is illegal. Te referendout the right of Gagauzias 150,000 people to secMoldova should the latter choose to join Romaniasks whether residents would rather join the EURussia-led Customs Union. Analysts say the preferendum is a consequence of the political amarginalization of the ethnically urkic Gagauz

At a press conferenceon Wednesday, GiorgiMargvelashvili, Georgias

president, expressed concern over the 11 km expansionof Russias border zone into the territory of the breakawayrepublic of Abkhazia. Abkhaz officials say the expandedborder zone, which will be in force until March 21 and will consist of a series of checkpoints, will help strengthenregional security ahead of the Sochi games. Margvelashvilisays the expansion is motivated by politics, not security.

Armenian Foreign MinisterEdward Nalbandian statedin a press conference

Prime Minister Erdogansstruggle to manage thecorruption scandal became

this week that border conicts between Armenia andAzerbaijan will hinder peaceful negotiations on theNagorno-Karabakh region. Moreover, Nalbandianclaimed that the Azerbaijani government obstructsprogress by either disregarding international statementsand principles governing the regulation of the conict, ormisleading the public as to their content.

worse this week as the value of the lira dropped to 2.33to the dollar. Tis is twice the number of lira to buydollars than the currencys peak six years ago. Te centralbank has been unable to convince investors that it couldbalance the countrys forex reserves without interest ratehikes, a policy Erdogan opposes.

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3/6

Country News Digest Officials have announcedthat Kyrgyz troops havekilled 11 members of

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

a criminal group near the Chinese border. Te groupkilled the head of the areas hunting department, and wasdestroying buildings in the Issykul region. Kyrgyz troopskilled them after they opened re on the troops. Teiridentities are still unknown, but officials suspect they wereethnic Uighurs connected to the drug trade.

Noor Ahmad Noori, aformer Afghan translatorfor the New York imes, was beaten and stabbed to death outside of Lashon Tursday. Noori, a well-known local reportetranslator, was abducted and missing for nine houhe was found. No one has claimed responsibilitykilling, and it is not clear if his death was connthe aliban insurgency or if it was a more person

Mongolia

Iran Tis week Iranian PresidentHassan Rouhani becamethis rst Iranian presidentin ten years to attend the World Economic ForDavos, Switzerland. In a speech in Davos on TRouhani reiterated Irans commitment to negotideal with the West on its nuclear program in exfor sanctions relief, which Rouhani believes wIran one of the worlds top 10 economies in the years.

Te urkmen governmentis ending its policy ofsupplying free gas to urkmen citizens. On January 17 urkmen PrGerbanguly Berdymukhamedov announced thgovernment will begin the installment of gas mprivate residences to replace its completely-sugas policy, which cost the government an estimbillion per year.

Mongolia recorded anoverall drop in exports in2013, a report issued this week confirms. Despite massive exports of from the newly opened Oyu olgoi mine, Mosuffered a net loss of exports due to an 11.5% coal exports to China. China accounted for 8Mongolias 2013 exports by value, the reporshowed.

Te defence ministersof Kazakhstan andIsrael signed a military

cooperation agreement in el-Aviv on Monday. Underthe pact, Israeli military personnel will conduct joint drillsin Kazakhstans polygons, as well as providing technicalexpertise. A press release from Kazakhstans Ministryof Defense said the agreement is part of a continuingpush to professionalize the military. Observers say thepurchase of Israeli equipment may be on the horizon.

Umon adjiev, a memberof ajikistans oppositionIslamic Renaissance Party

(IRP), has died in police custody in ajikistans secondcity of Khudjand. His relatives say he may have died asa result of being tortured. Te IRP had planned to holda press conference at their Khudjand headquarters on Tursday to discuss adjievs death. However, their office was sealed off that same day by authorities, who claimedthe space violated sanitation and re safety norms.

At least two snow leopards were photographed inUzbekistan for the rst

time, the rst photographic evidence that the leopardsresided in this country. Uzbekistan is on the far westernedge of their known habitat. Te camera trap study wasorganized in the Kizilsu area of Gissar Nature Reserve,on the border of Uzbekistan and ajikistan. Te footagealso conrmed the presence of lynx, bear, and ibex.

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4/6

Country News Digest Juhan Parts, Estoniastransport minister, hascome under re for

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republisaying in an interview over the Rail Baltica projectthat there are fools in the Lithuanian government. Te comment was made during a heated debateamong officials in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania over which cities should be linked by the rail project. Partshas sinced apologized to Lithuania for his remarks.

Te crime rate in the CzechRepublic has increased by7% in the past year. DeputyPolice President Vaclav Kucera told reporters tincrease was caused, in part, by amnesty thatPresident Klaus announced in 2013, which to convicts with low sentences, the elderly, andPolice saw a rise in property crimes and burglarieas nancial and drug crimes.

Latvia

Romania

Hungary

Poland

Slovakian Prime MinisterRobert Fico has vowedto reduce Slovakiasunemployment level to that of the Europeanaverage by 2016. His statement followed the rofficial economic data for December 2013, whica 13.5% unemployment rate in the country, comthe EUs average of 12.5%. Fico stressed that thelabor ministry will continue to focus on raising the public and private sectors.

Plans to construct amemorial commemoratingthe countrys occupationby Nazi Germany in 1944 resulted in widespredebate in Hungary this week. Critics of the icharacterize it as a rewriting of history, nothe planned monument fails to mention that H willingly collaborated with Germany before 194

On Tursday RomanianInterior Minister RaduStrohe resigned from hispost amidst public criticisms of the incompetencstates emergency services. Te public outcry begasmall plane crash on Monday, where two passengafter an apparent slow and inadequate rescue mStrohe is the fourth government official to resigred as a result of the crash.

Authorities announced theresults of a joint customsoperation initiated by

Lithuania and carried out in October 2013. 28 EUmember states participated in operation Warehouse, which seized massive quantities of diesel fuel, cigarettes,and vodka that would have otherwise been smuggled intothe region. Reports estimate that the operation preventedthe loss of 9 million euros from EU customs income.

A woman has risen tothe position of the PrimeMinister for the rst time

in Latvias history this week. Heading the center-rightcoalition Unity, Laimdota Straujuma has enjoyed alengthy career in public service. Experts expect her tolargely continue the policies of her predecessor, ValdisDombrovskis, who resigned late last year after thecollapse of a supermarket in Riga left dozens dead.

On Tursday Dublin-basedoil and gas explorationcompany San Leon Energy

announced a successful shale test at the Lewino well inthe Baltic Basin. Te tests revealed a potential yield ofup to 400,000 cubic feet per day, making the well one ofthe largest in Poland, which possesses the regions largestnatural gas reserves.

Slovakia

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5/6

Country News Digest Bulgaria and urkey planto sign an agreement aboutthe deadlines and details Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiaof the construction of their gas grid interconnection inMarch. Bulgartransgaz, Bulgarian state-owned operator, will be in charge of the Bulgarian section of the gas grid. Te project will be completed in two years. Te deal willinclude construction of gas pipelines and potentially anuclear power plant.

Te Croatian SupremeCourt ruled on uesdaythat Josip Perkovic, aformer Yugoslav intelligence chief, can be extraGermany, where he will face trial for complicit1983 murder of Croatian dissident Stjepan DjurPerkovic has denied the charges against him, saactivities in Germany in the 1980s consisted ofintelligence work.

Serbia

Macedonia

Montenegro has launcheda tender to sell off sharesof Kombinat AluminijumaPodgorica (KAP), the partially state-ownednow bankrupt aluminum plant. KAP, still the industrial employer in the country, was dbankrupt last October, prompting a dispute betwgovernment and KAPs co-owner, Russian bilOleg Deripaska. Resolution of this dispute will factor in determining Montenegros EU candida

On Tursday, the Yugoslav war crimes court shortenedthe sentences for threeSerbian officials for atrocities committed in Koupheld elements of another courts nding thaleaders committed crimes against humanity in K1999. Teir convictions were partly overturned bthe appeals chamber believed there was not evidence to show that the victims were not killed

Slovenia has rejected aruling made by a Croatiancourt that requires thesuccessor to the defunct Ljubljanska BankaLjubljanska Banka, to repay approximately $36.to Croatia due to deposits made by Croatian cbefore the collapse of Yugoslavia. Slovenian Minister Karl Erjavec says the ruling has no fSlovenia, and that it runs counter to a deal onsavings that cleared the way for Croatias EU acc

Prime Minister Edi Ramaheld a ceremony uesdayin memory of four civilians

killed at an anti-government protest held by his then-opposition Socialist party in January 2011. Rama calledfor the re-imprisonment of the officers charged with thekillings, who were recently released from jail, and for a fulloverhaul of the justice system. During the ceremony, policebroke up a left-wing rally whose participants accused Ramaof betraying the protestors and his campaign pledges.

On uesday Serbia beganformal EU membershiptalks in Brussels with an

EU delegation led by Greek Foreign Minister EvangelosVenizelos. Serbias EU accession is expected to take atleast six years, though Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacichas set 2018 as Serbias target date for EU membership.

Tis week Freedom Housereleased its Freedom inthe World 2014 report,

ranking Macedonia at a 3 on a 1-7 sale (partially free).Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are theonly regional Balkan countries to rank below free in thereport, according to the Focus Information Agency.

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6/6

Country News Digest

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Last week, a library housingrare and ancient texts fromacross the Islamic worldopened in Sarajevo. Funded by a $9 million grant fromQatar, the newly opened Gazi Husrev Bey Library,named after a similar library destroyed by war in the early1990s, has also taken in books that were displaced afterthe Bosnian National Library was razed in 1992.

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