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On 2 November the head of the Italian gas group Edison, Umberto Quadrino, reported that his company has filed a lawsuit at the Court of Arbitration in Stockholm against Promgas, a company belonging to Gazprom and Italy’s ENI. The suit…
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On 3-4 November, Iran’s foreign minister Manushehr Mottaki visited Georgia,. The most important result of the visit was the signing of an agreement on visa-free travel, the opening of an Iranian consulate in Batumi, and an agreement on…
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On November 16, one of the best-known Russian bloggers, the lawyer Alexei Navalny, published online documents about large-scale financial fraud during the construction of the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO). The documents he…
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On 16 November, in Kyiv and many other Ukrainian cities, protests took place on a scale not seen since 2004. In Kyiv more than thirty thousand people from throughout Ukraine protested in front of Parliament; in Khmielnitski there were…
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| Justyna Gotkowska
Germany is officially criticising Belarus for non-compliance with democratic standards, while at the same time intensifying economic and political contacts in order to build its strong economic position in Belarus.
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On 3 November, the Latvian parliament, which was elected at the beginning of October, approved the new government to be led by the previous prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis.
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The Serbian president, Boris Tadic, paid an unofficial visit to Croatia on 4 November. Tadic and his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic visited the graves of Croat and Serb victims of the 1991–1995 war. The visit is part of the process of…
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The Czech parliament, owing to support from centre-right MPs, voted in favour of the government’s draft plan for foreign military missions until 2013. It envisages increasing the contingent in Afghanistan by 180 soldiers and an almost…
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On 28 October, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe started considering a complaint brought by an Iraqi who had asked for asylum in Germany. The complainant was deported from Germany to Greece, where he submitted his first asylum…
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| Tadeusz A Olszański
From the early results of Ukraine’s communal elections, it appears that the Party of Regions has taken control over the local government authorities of most regions and big cities, thus ending the process of monopolising power in the…