ceres news digest - week9, vol.2, march 18-march 22

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Country News DigestVol.2, Issue #9

03/18/13-03/22/13

Editor: Eugene Imas

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

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2/6

Country News DigestOn Tursday, severalleading human rightsgroups condemned the

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiacrackdown on journalism in Azerbaijan. According tothe the groups statements, March 2013 has seen sevenjournalists arrested, and the human rights groups calledon the Azerbaijani government to work towards morereedom o expression.

Last week, Russiaconcluded its investigationsinto Sergei Magnitskysdeath and stated that the Hermitage lawyer suered nophysical abuse while in prison. Tese ndings contradictthose by the 2011 human rights council under then-President Medvedev, which ound that Magnitsky waskilled by being denied urgent medical care.

Armenia

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Turkey

Te Agricultural Ministryis near to closing a deal ongrain exports through July.Te Ministry has overseen grain exports as a result olast years drought that caused a 29% decline in wheatharvests. Ukraine has so ar exported over 800,000 metrictons o grain this month alone.

In an interview withRussian V channel Russiaoday, Belarusian PresidentAlexander Lukashenko made a backhanded remarktowards Germanys homosexual Foreign Minister GuidoWesterwelle. I orgive women or their lesbianism, hesaid. But I will never in my lietime orgive men orbeing gay. Last week the EU and Belarus withdrew theirambassadors over a new round o sanctions or humanrights violations.

Te European Commissionsreport on neighboring statespraised Moldova or itssignicant reorms and progress. EU-Moldovan relationsare governed by the European Neighborhood Policy. Telatest report will be used in determining the availability oEU unds or Moldova and other EU neighbors.

Georgia was among severalcountries that the EuropeanUnion has identied as

cooperating well with the EU under the ramework othe European Neighbourhood Policy. Te report praisedGeorgias mostly ree and air parliamentary electionsbut pointed to the judiciarys lack o independence as anarea or improvement.

Te runner-up inthe recent Armenianpresidential elections, Ra

Hovannisian, has vowed to extend his hunger strike,which began on March 10, until the winner, SerzhSargsyan ocially renounces the election results. Expertsdoubt that Hovannisians eorts will pay o, pointing tohis inability so ar to convince the public that the electionswere rigged.

Te leader o theKurdistans Workers Party(PKK), Abdullah Ocalan,

called or the militants to cease active combat with theurks. In a letter read out to a large crowd gathered inSouthern urkey, Ocalan wrote, We reached the pointwhere weapons should go silent and ideas speak...A newera starts when politics, instead o guns, comes to theoreront. Many view Ocalans declaration as a criticalstep towards peace.

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3/6

Country News DigestTe Kyrgyz governmenthas declared its willingnessto renegotiate the 2009

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Kazakhstan

agreement with Canadian mining company CenterraGold Inc. (CG). Last month Parliament gave thecompany three months to agree to new terms beore thegovernment reneged on the Kumtor mine deal. Tis willbe the ourth round o negotiations with Centerra sincethe mine was rst developed in the 1990s.

Te US has agreed togradually withdraw itstroops rom Wardak, astrategically important region o Aghanistan whereinsurgents are known to operate. Aghan security orceswill ll the void let by the American troop withdrawals.Te plan ollows weeks o accusations by President Karzaithat US troops were engaged in abusive behavior towardsthe civilian population o Wardak.

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IranIn a strongly-wordedspeech, Iranian leaderAyatollah Ali Khameneithreatened to raze Israeli cities Haia and el Aviv tothe ground should Jerusalem make a preemptive strikeagainst Iranian nuclear acilities. While US PresidentObama expressed hope or a diplomatic solution duringhis visit to Israel this week, Khamenei stated that Israelwas too small to be Irans main adversary and insteadpointed to the US as a center o animosity.

Te presidents oAghanistan, urkmenistan,and ajikistan met in

Ashgabat and signed a preliminary agreement on arailway that would link the three countries. Constructionis slated to begin in July in urkmenistan.

A high-ranking Mongolianocial has announced thatthe government plans toopen 66 percent o the Sainshand Industrial Complex toprivate investment. Te industrial park will be positionedadjacent to a railway that connects China and Russia andis intended to serve as a developmental model or otherprovinces in Mongolia.

A court in northernKazakhstan has orderedthat over one hundred

conscated Bibles and other pieces o Christian literatureto be burned. Freedom watchdog organizations, such asForum 18, have decried the ruling, blaming Kazakhstansrecently adopted harsh religion law or the crackdown onnon-traditional aiths.

Dushanbe is nowdemanding Russia allocateadditional military aid and

investments in hydropower systems beore it raties anagreement signed in October 2012 or a Russian militarybase in ajik territory. Last year Russia promised a $1.3billion military aid package to Kyrgyzstan but only $200million to ajikistan. Te 201st military base is Russiaslargest military contingent in Central Asia.

Conficting reports havesuraced about a recentskirmish on the Uzbek-

Aghan border. According to Uzbek authorities, on March14 ten Aghans crossed into Uzbek territory, attackedthe border guards, and tried to seize their weapons. Teborder guards responded with re, killing three Aghans.However, Aghanistans border guard commander insistedthat on March 17 Uzbek border guards attacked and shotseven Aghans, killing three.

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4/6

Country News DigestStandards o living areon the rise in Estonia.According to the most

Estonia

Lithuania

Czech Republicrecent census, average dwelling space or Estonians hasincreased rom 24 to 30.5 meters since the last survey tenyears ago. Te number o rooms per person has also risento 1.25. Te majority o dwellings included in the surveywere apartments rather than separate houses.

MND Group, a Czechoil and gas producer, hasreached an agreementwith Gazprom to build a $128 million underground gasstorage acility. Construction will begin in 2014 with anintended operational date sometime in 2016.

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Slovakia joined Slovenia asthe only two states to voteagainst the new CommonAgricultural Policy (CAP). Slovakias opposition is unlikelyto alter the course o CAP reorm. Irish AgriculturalMinister Simon Coveney says the 25-2 vote representeda strong mandate or him to proceed with drating CAPreorm beore Irelands EU presidency ends in June.

Te Minister o HumanResources o Hungary hasrequested that journalistFerenc Szaniszlo return the prestigious ancsics Prizethat he was awarded last week, ater Israel and the UnitedStates complained about the journalists record o anti-Semitic reporting. Minister Zoltan Balog claims thathe simply did not know o Szanislos record when heawarded him the prize.

On uesday RomanianPresident raian Basescumet with US Vice PresidentJoe Biden, who assured Basescu that Romania will notbe aected by Washingtons recent decisions on the anti-missile shield. Last week US Deense Minister ChuckHagel said the US was altering its plans by placing missileinterceptors in Alaska, but interceptors in Romania are tobe ready by 2015.

Lithuania has decidedto grant political asylumto ormer Belarusian

intelligence ocer Stepan Zakharchenko, Lithuanianauthorities announced last week. Zakharchenko fedhis native country last year when he reused to give anoath stating that he would shoot unarmed protesters iordered to do so. He was severely beaten and hospitalizedor his stance beore escaping to Lithuania.

Hundreds o Latviansmarched through thestreets o Riga this week

to commemorate the service o Latvian troops thatought alongside Nazi orces during World War II.Protesters who gathered alongside the march displayedlarge pictures o Holocaust victims and blared sirensand music to disrupt the procession. Four protesterswere arrested ollowing the incident.

Nineteen miners weretrapped underground inwestern Poland this week

when a small earthquake caused tunnels in a coppermine to collapse. Te mine, which has operated since thelate 1960s, is owned by Polands largest copper miningcompany KGHM. Te miners were trapped nearly hal amile underground or seven hours beore being dug outearly on Wednesday.

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Country News DigestTe number o sel-immolations in Bulgariahas grown to seven, ater

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatiatwo more protesters set themselves on re. Te protesterswho committed acts o sel-immolations this week didso out o desperation and poverty. According to hospitalsta, one o the protesters constantly repeated, I am edup, theres no bread, I cannot stand this anymore.

Zdravko Mamic, theExecutive Director oCroatias most successulsoccer team, Dinamo Zagreb, was arrested this week atermaking racially charged remarks about Education andSports Minister Zeljko Jovanovic, an ethnic Serb. Mamichas been released pending trial and has been criticized byocials throughout the country.

Serbia

Macedonia

With the presidentialelection only a ew weeksaway, Montenegrin politicalobservers avor DPS candidate and current president FilipVujanovics chances to hold onto his position. Municipalelections in Niksic showed strong support or the DPSand will likely carry over into the presidential election.Vujanovic is up against independent candidate MiodragLekic in the April 7 election.

On Tursday, the KosovarMinister o rade andIndustry met withPakistans rst ambassador to Kosovo to discuss newbusiness relations. Pakistans ambassador to Kosovostated that he was optimistic about the new partnershipand hoped to initiate joint business ventures with Kosovo.

Prime Minister AlenkaBratuseks new center-letgovernment was approvedby lawmakers this past week. Te speedy acceptance othe new our-party coalition was seen as a necessity as thecountry struggles with the economic downturn aectingmany European states. Bratusek is the rst emale primeminister since the country seceded rom Yugoslavia in1991.

Albania has agreed toaccept 210 members o theIranian opposition group

Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) who are living at a ormerUS military base in Iraq. Last Saturday UN envoy in IraqMartin Kobler and US Deputy Assistant Secretary oState Barbara Lea held talks with Albanian authoritieson the security and housing situation or the MEKmembers. Te arrangement is temporary while the UNworks to permanently relocate the Iranian oppositionists.

Serbian President Nikolicmet with US Vice-President Biden while both

were in Rome to celebrate the inauguration o PopeFrancis I. Nikolic told reporters that he had inormedBiden o the real status o Belgrade-Pristina relations ascertain inormation arriving in the US did not correspondto the actual situation.

Macedonia is going toextend its visa-ree regimeto Ukraine or another

year. Ukrainians who enter the country must have validpassports and sucient unds to cover their stay.

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Te European Bankor Reconstruction andDevelopment (EBRD) hasagreed to lend 35 million to conance the Vrandukhydroelectric plant on the Bosna river and upgrades to theKostela hydroelectric plant on the Una river. EBRD hasinvested a total o 1.5 billion in 100 projects in Bosniaand Herzegovina with a ocus on inrastructure, support

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