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Country News DigestOn January 24, hundredso protesters gatheredaround Ismailli governors

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russiamansion, angrily demanding his resignation. Te violentprotests ollowed a night o rioting and arson, whichallegedly began with a car accident.

Te Levada Agency oundthat Putins public approvalrating is at its lowestsince 2000. Te leading actor in his low rating is thatmany believe that Putin can no longer guarantee animprovement in living standards. Despite the growingdiscontent with burgeoning corruption, Putin still has asolid base o supporters.

Armenia

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U.S. Secretary o StateHillary Clinton sent a lettero support to imprisonedex-Prime Minister Yulia ymoshenka ater new chargeswere brought against her. Secretary Clinton expressedhope that Ms. ymoshenka would be released soon. Sherearmed the U.S. and E.U. position that ymoshenkastrial demonstrated selective justice. Ms. ymoshenka wasrecently charged with arranging the contract killings obusiness rivals.

Lukashenko wants tomake better use o stateunding o the sciencesbelieving that resources should not be wasted on pureacademic curiosity, but ocused on making Belarus moretechnologically competitive.

Egg production in Moldovaell 17% to 586 millionpieces this year. Te decreasehas been blamed on the eects o the summer drought,

which severely cut the amount o eed available to breedersand armers. Te country still managed to export 10 millioneggs, mostly to Iraq and Georgia.

Te Prime Minister oGeorgia Bidzina Ivanishvilimet with Russias Prime

Minister Dmitry Medvedev while attending the DavosWorld Economic Forum. Although the meeting lastedonly a ew minutes, it was the highest level meetingbetween the two governments since the 2008 Russia-Georgia War.

Syrian-Armenians haveound reuge rom theconict in Syria in the

volatile region o Nagorno-Karabakh. Te government oAzerbaijan has raised ocial objections to the OSCEsMinsk Group.

On January 25, urkishPrime Minister Erdoganappointed our new

ministers. Notable among the Cabinet changes was thereplacement o hawkish Interior Minister Idris NaimSahin with Muammer Guler in a move to support Kurdishpeace talks. Solving the Kurdish issue is Erdogans toppriority.

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Country News DigestUS Assistant Secretary orSouth and Central AsianAairs Robert Blake visited

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

Bishkek last week to discuss the lease o the US transitcenter at the Manas International Airport. While detailso the meeting have not been released, Blakes commentsto the media have led to speculation the US may belooking or a new base elsewhere. Last year the Manasbase injected $142 million into the Kyrgyz economy.

In a report released thisweek, the United Nationsconcluded that the useo harsh interrogation techniques, including torture, iswidespread in Aghan prisons. Eorts to train memberso the Aghan police orce and intelligence agencies ininterrogation techniques that respect human rights seemto have ailed.

Mongolia

Iranehran has proposed Cairo,Egypt as the location or arenewed round o talks onits nuclear program with the Big Six: France, China,Russia, Germany, Britain, and the United States. Whilesome see this as a sign o Irans desire to cooperate on itsprogram, others remain skeptical. According to the EU,ehran has been delaying its responses and creating newpre-conditions or talks.

In an eort to reduce itsdependence on Russiangas, Ukraine is hoping toresume purchasing gas rom urkmenistan. PresidentViktor Yanukovych raised the issue o gas transactionsduring a visit to Ashgabat in 2011 and again duringBerdymukhammedovs visit to Kiev. Ukrainian ForeignMinister Leonid Kozahary said that Ukraine regrettednot preserving its energy ties with urkmenistan.

avan olgoi, a massivecoal-mining project inMongolia, has postponedits Initial Public Oering valued at $3 billion. Tegovernment has pledged a $350 million loan towardsthe project in order to ease its fnancial troubles, but theamount is likely not enough to overcome the massiveunderdevelopment o inrastructure that has slowedprogress to date.

Kazakhstan placed 49th outo 185 on the World BanksEase o Doing Business

ratings, above countries such as Russia, China, andurkey. Yerbolat Dossayev, the Minister o the Economyand Budget Planning, credited Kazakhstans new policieson enterprise registration and taxes or this jump in therankings. Kazakhstan intends to reduce tax orms andstreamline registration into an electronic process.

Tis week Bishkek andDushanbe began talksto delineate their border.

Kyrgyzstan and ajikistan share a 970 kilometer border,o which only 519 kilometers were ully agreed upon aterthe collapse o the Soviet Union. Te negotiations aretaking place against the backdrop o the ongoing Kyrgyz-Uzbek border crisis around the Uzbek region o Sokh.

alks between Bishkekand ashkent to solvethe border dispute over

Uzbekistans Sokh district have stalled. ensions beganon January 5 when residents o Sokh fred on Kyrgyzborder guards, who were installing electrical lines to a newKyrgyz border post. ashkent then unilaterally closed theborder on January 17, blocking access to 7 Kyrgyz villagesthat are now accessible only by helicopter.

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Country News DigestLast years statistics revealthat Estonia had thehighest incidence o drug-

Estonia

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Czech Republicrelated deaths o any European country in 2012. Onehundred and sixty people died rom illegal drug usage,primarily rom a synthetic substance called entanyl,which is created in Russia. Eorts to contain the problemresulted in confscation o record amounts o illegal drugs.

Te Czech Chamber oCommerce and Industrywill open its CIS oce inBaku sometime early this year. According to the CzechAmbassador to Azerbaijan, trade between the two statesreached $1.4 billion in 2012. Te announcement wasmade at a Caspian-European dialogue conerence put onby the Caspian-European Integration Business Club.

Latvia

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Te Slovak governmenthas oered a new set oincentives to U.S. Steel,one o the largest employers in Slovakia, in an attempt tomaintain the companys presence in the country. Slowingdemand in Europe and China has already led U.S. Steel tosell its Serbian mill.

Politicians rom theruling party o Hungary,Fidesz, ailed to condemna newspaper article written by one o its membersthat contained hate speech aimed at Hungarys Romapopulation. Te article has been criticized throughout theEU and spawned a protest outside Fidesz headquarters inBudapest.

Te Romanian parliamentvoted overwhelmingly toboost their immunity romdetainment and prosecution. With 309 votes or, 56against and two abstentions, the approved modifcationslower MPs housing and transport allowances, but requireprosecutors to obtain parliamentary approval beorelaunching a criminal investigation against a MP.

Members o the EuropeanParliament have criticizedLithuania or ailing to ully

decommission outdated nuclear power plants. AlthoughLithuania has been receiving unding or that purposeor the last ten years, its nuclear plant is still running.Lithuania requested some $700 million more rom theEU to fnish the project, but the MEPs recently cut thisfgure by $200 million.

Latvia ranked ourth onAkamai echnologies listo the countries with the

astest internet speeds in the world. Only Hong Kong,Japan, and South Korea placed ahead o the small Balticnation.

Polands president urgedthe country not to set adate or adoption o the

euro until ater the next round o elections in 2015,delaying or at least another three years Polands entryinto the Eurozone. Poland has been obliged to adoptthe euro since its admission to the EU in 2004, but hasbeen reluctant to move orward on currency integrationbecause o the recent fnancial crisis.

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Country News DigestOn January 27, Bulgarianswill vote on a reerendumpertaining to the role o

Bulgaria

Albania

Croatianuclear energy in the country. Tis is Bulgarias frstreerendum since the all o Communism. Citizenswill determine, Should nuclear energy be developed inBulgaria through the construction o new nuclear powerunits?

Slovenia is reusing toratiy Croatias bid to jointhe EU until a dispute overthe Ljubljanska Bank is resolved. Although Croatia isoptimistic that the two sides will come to an agreementover the dispute beore it is scheduled to join the EUin July, internal upheavals in the Slovenian governmentcomplicate the situation.

Serbia

Macedonia

Te European ParliamentsCommittee on ForeignAairs adopted theEuropean Commissions 2012 report on Montenegroearlier this week. Te report praised Montenegro orits progress towards EU membership, especially itsparliamentary elections last October. Montenegro needsto continue improving on issues relating to the rule olaw, media independence, and violence against women.

On January 23, Kosovonamed Lulzim Peci as itsfrst envoy to Serbia. Inturn, Serbia is expected to name its envoy to Kosovowithin a ew days, although Belgrade has insisted thatthe envoy will not have diplomatic status.

Around 100,000 publicsector workers have goneon strike in Slovenia overrecent austerity measures calling or public employee joband pay cuts. en to fteen thousand people took partin mass demonstrations in Ljubljana. Protesters calledor the resignation o Prime Minister Jansa who wascriticized in a recent report on ocial corruption.

Albanias power regulatorrevoked the license oCEZ, the Czech Republics

largest energy producer, ater a year o disputes over taxesand unpaid electric bills.Te state has accused CEZ obreaching its license because it ailed to limit the numbero power outages and to import the required about opower. CEZ claims it was orced to run the company ata loss because o unpaid electric bills and a price hike onenergy rom Albanias state-owned generator.

King Peter IIs remainswere disinterred romLibertyville, IL this week

and own to Serbia or reburial. King Peter was the lastKing o Yugoslavia, having ed the country at the start oWorld War II. He died in 1970 in the United States andwas not buried in his homeland due to communist rule.Peter IIs son, Crown Prince Alexander, had requestedthe return o his athers remains several years ago.

Greece has blockedMacedonias integrationinto the EU over a name

dispute. Greece has a northern province called Macedonia.While Macedonia is ocially reerred to as the FormerYugoslav Republic o Macedonia, Greece sees the nameissue as a threat to its security. Te EU is currently tryingto resolve the problem.

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Bosnia &Herzegovina

Bosnia has postponed itsfrst census since the 1992-95 war on Wednesday dueto disagreement among the regional governments overhow to conduct it. Originally scheduled or April, thecensus will now be conducted in October and will likelyshow post-war demographic changes. Te last census wasconducted in 1991 when its population was 4.4 million.

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