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On 18 and 26 July, talks were held between the government and the main opposition force, the Armenian National Congress (ANC), whose leader is the former President Levon Ter-Petrossian ( held office between 1991 and 1998). The ‘ruling camp…
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| Justyna Gotkowska
On 18-19 July the 13th German-Russian intergovernmental consultations were held in Hanover. A dozenor so ministers from each country participated in the consultations along with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitri Medvedev.
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On 14 July in Austria, a Russian citizen, Mikhail Golovatov, was arrested. He was wanted by Lithuania by means of a European arrest warrant on charges of leading the action of pacifying independence protests at the TV tower in Vilnius on…
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On 20 July Kosovo's government made a decision to introduce an embargo on imports of Serbian products and a 10% import tariff on products manufactured in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). These measures are most likely intended to put pressure…
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On 23 July Latvia's inhabitants voted in a referendum for the dissolution of parliament. On 17 September early parliamentary elections will be held. Latvian society is disappointed with the political elite, perceived as corrupt and caring…
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On 7 July Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, voted in a new pension system law which does not change the present pension system – based on what is called the ‘solidarity of generations’, i.e. disbursing pensions from the fund’s current…
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On 6 July in Georgia a regulation which strengthens the legal status of faith-based groups other than the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) came into force. The new law was adopted by parliament against the unanimous opposition of the GOC,…
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In 2010 Gazprom recorded better results than in 2009 during the crisis but it did not manage to rebuild its position in Europe, as is revealed in the report for 2010 approved on 30 June by its annual General Shareholders Meeting. The data…
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| Konrad Popławski
A priority task for Germany is to restrain the unfavourable net balance of this country mainly by introducing a mechanism reducing Germany’s financial obligations and by scaling down the expenses on the Cohesion Policy, which no longer…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
A ban on imports – an instrument often employed by Russia – is being used not only for the protection of domestic consumers but above all as a tool of foreign policy.