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* Albanianews (Albania, Italy and Kosovo)

 Emma, la badante che parla sette lingue

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 05:02 AM PST

Fanatiche e gelose della carta stampata, io e la mia amica Emma, fino a poco tempo fa, utilizzavamo sporadicamente internet. Sollecitati dai nostri amici, piano piano, siamo diventate parte di questo fantastico mondo condividendo novità e solitudine. Ed è proprio davanti a questo schermo, prima guardato con sospetto, è iniziata la nostra preziosa amicizia.

 Nasce a Pistoia il nuovo giornale Migranti News

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:01 AM PST

Dopo due grandi attività nel campo culturale, in particolar modo in quello di organizzare concerti musicale con artisti diversi in cui ha avuto una grande partecipazione e con grande successo, nasce il giornale “Migranti News” da un’idea di Ardian Mehmeti, un giovane lavoratore albanese che sta diventando cittadino italiano dopo dieci anni di prezioso lavoro nei Cantieri delle province di Pistoia.

 Prove tecniche di integrazione con un master transfrontaliero tra Scutari e Brindisi

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 08:50 PM PST

Ambizioso progetto transfrontaliero tra il Comune di Brindisi e l’Albania per la formazione professionale nel settore della Pubblica Amministrazione. Nel Palazzo della Cultura di Tirana si è tenuto il workshop "Scuola di società civile: università, istituzioni e imprenditoria; prove tecniche di integrazione e cooperazione".

 Parma: Primo Marzo, giornata europea dei migranti

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 04:54 AM PST

Sono stati in tanti, forse più di cinquecento, i cittadini che hanno partecipato alla manifestazione del Primo Marzo a Parma per richiedere il rispetto dei diritti dei migranti, il riconoscimento della cittadinanza e del diritto di voto. Ma non abbastanza se si considera che in una realtà come quella parmigiana solo la comunità albanese conta più di cinquemila residenti.

> For further information: www.albanianews.it

* Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (Bosnia and Balkans)

 Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Balkan Insight Daily No. 481, March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.birn.eu.com

* Camera di Commercio Italiana in Bulgaria (Bulgaria and Italy)

Pubblichiamo in allegato la newsletter istituzionale del 9 marzo 2010

> For further information: www.camcomit.bg

* Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania (Romania and Italy)

Pubblichiamo in allegato il "Bollettino" CCIpR n. 4, la Newsletter economica della Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania.

> For further information: www.cameradicommercio.ro

* Central Asian News Service (Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia)

Daily news report of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.ca-news.org

* Civil Georgia (Georgia)

Daily news online of March 08, 2010

> For further information: www.civil.ge

* Ebrd (England, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

Procurement notices / Opportunities for suppliers, contractors and consultants worldwide:

 Surgut Wastewater Collection Rehabilitation Project, Russia

 Almatyelektrotrans Project,Kazakhstan

> For further information: www.ebrd.com

* Ec Delegation BiH (Bosnia & Herzegovina and Belgium)

 Official opening of the Klobuk Border Crossing Point - Zvanicno otvaranje granicnog prijelaza Klobuk

> For further information: www.europa.ba

* Go Group Media (Georgia)

 Telavi Series: Fashion (Giorgi Bezhanishvili)

Telavi series continues. This time meet fashion designer from Kakheti...

თელავის სერიალი: მოდა. მეხუთე სერია. მოდის დიზაინერი კახეთიდან...გიორგი ბეჟანიშვილის ფილმი, თელავი, კახეთი, საქართველო, მარტი 2010

Телавский Сериал: Мода. Пятая серия. В Кахети умеют не только красиво одеваться, но и создавать одежду... Фильм Гиорги Бежанишвили, Телави, Кахети, Грузия, март 2010 * Interfax (Russia and Cis)

 Chegemskaya Pravda (Chegemskaya Pravda newspaper, Abkhazia)

“Chegemskaya Pravda” is a popular Russian-language independent weekly newspaper published in Sukhum(i), Abkhazia. Editor-in-Chief - Inal Khashig

"ჩეგემსკაია პრავდა" ყოველკვირეული რუსულენოვანი დამოუკიდებელი გაზეთია, რომელიც გამოდის ქალაქ სოხუმში, აფხაზეთი. გაზეთის მთავარი რედაქტორია ინალ ხაშიგი

"Чегемская правда" - еженедельная русскоязычная независимая газета, выходящая в городе Сухум(и), Абхазия. Главный редактор газеты - Инал Хашиг

> For further information: www.gogroupmedia.net

* Interfax (Russia and Cis)

Interfax Russia & CIS Diplomatic Panorama March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.interfax.com

* Latvian Centre for Human Rights (Latvia)

Newsletter of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.humanrights.org.lv

* Memorial (Russia and Cis)

 Ingush Resident Missing in Piatigorsk

On March 4, 2010 in Piatigorsk (Stavropol krai) resident of Plievsky metropolitan region of Nazran (Ingushetia) Mikail Pliev (DOB 1977) disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Pliev’s relatives believe that he was abducted by members of special services.

On March 4, in the afternoon Mikail Pliev took his pregnant wife to Piatigorsk for medical examination. He got out of the car and did not return. His wife, concerned about his long absence, started looking for him. Witnesses who saw a man looking like Mikail had been taken into a police car was found. But it was impossible to ascertain the abduction of Pliev.

In the afternoon of March 6 around a hundred of Pliev’s relatives and other residents spontaneously went on the street for a rally, they demanded to return the abducted man. They blocked the road Nazran-Ordzhonikidzevskaya not far from the village administration of Plievo. After 2 pm members of republic police arrived at the place of the rally. They began to push the participants of the rally aside, some shots in the air were made. Tensions were growing. Some paricipants - young men - were beaten up and detained. Rally participants were pushed off the road but they did not leave. The same day Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov met the relatives of the abducted. He promised police would do all its best to find the man. The same day people detained during the rally were released.

On March 7 and 8, protest action continued. People gathered at the same place, not far from the administrative building. They did not block the road. There was police at the place of the rally. The participants had posters with slogans demanding to free the abducted.

Mikail Pliev is 32 years old, he has five children. A year ago Pliev’s family came back to his native village from Bashkiria where he was doing construction business. He has never been brought to a trial, was not announced wanted.

There is no information about Pliev’s whereabouts so far.

 The Special Operation from March 2-3 in the village of Ekazhevo: Questions Remain

Early in the morning on March 2, 2010 in the village of Ekazhevo (the Nazran District of Ingushetia), members of the security forces commenced upon a special operation. A few subdivisions of the security forces took part in the actions and a large number of military hardware and motor transport were involved. At around 6:00 am fighting broke out in the area where the special operations was to be carried out and continued almost the entire day.

According to information from FSB authorities in Ingushetia, at 5:00 am a counterterrorism operation regime (CTO) was implemented in the Nazran District. Information from the law-enforcement agencies specified the presence of members of the illegal armed forces on the territory of the district was the pretext for their actions.

Official sources were reporting that in the evening of the same day, March 2, the active phase of the special operation had already been finished. It was also being reported that during the fighting, six boeviks were killed and 11 individuals had been detained (later the specified number of detainees had increased to 16), while a few members of the security forces had been wounded. It wasn’t specifed what part of the village the fighting had been in, where the boeviks were taking shelter, nor how many of them there had been. The names of the deceased and the detained weren’t released.

Only on March 4 the ’siloviki’ informed the mass media of the details. During the fighting, three houses were destroyed. The houses belonged to the Kartoev family—four of the Kartoev brothers were killed: Akhmed, Magomed, Nazir, and Tukhan—and their neighbors, the Dobriev brothers. The story in the headlines is that Said Buryatski (Aleksandr Tikhomirov) has been killed. Buryatski was one of the most famous idealogues and propagandists of the fundamental undergroud in the Caucasus. It is being reported that his body has been identified in the laboritory at Rostov-on-Don; however, not all of the official sources of the security forces confirm the identification to the mass media. Besides this, the number of the dead was turning out to be definitely more than 6 people.

On March 4, the names of some of the detainees were released: three of the Kartoev brothers—Beslan, Tarkhan, and Tatarkhan—and their neighbor Yakub Aushev, all of whom had been taken to Moscow in implication with the Nevski Express bombing in November 2009. It is also being reported that five acting members of the police had been detained(this most likely explains the rise in those detained from 11 to 16).

On March 3, members of the Human Rights Center Memorial along with a member of the Chechen Committee for National Salvation arrived in Ekazhevo. They succeeded in ascertaining that the special operation had been held on two neighboring streets in the northern outskirts of the village—Alambekov St. and Kartoev St.

Two houses on Alambekov St. had been blocked off, one of which belonged to the Dobriev family. During the fighting, both houses were completely destroyed and all those inside them, supposedly four people, were killed.

They were unsuccessful in passing directly to the area of the battle as all the entrances had been blocked by members of the security forces, so the investigative team worked in the ruins of the houses, on Kartoev St. shooting could be heard. According to members of the police standing in the cordoned area, “fighting was going on”.

At that time the residents were saying that the “siloviki” were bombarding the Kartoevs’ house, and they confirmed that the Kartoev brothers—Tukhan, Nazir, and Magomed—were killed on this street on March 2. The relatives of those killed and some of the other residents said that the brothers hadn’t put up any armed resistance. The entire day of March 3, the relatives of the Kartoev brothers kept vigil near the morgue of the Central Republic Hospital, where the bodies of the deceased had been transported. They had been promised that the bodies would be turned over for burial after the investigators had finished their work upon them. It became known that a few of the bodies would possibly be sent for identification to Rostov-on-Don.

On March 3 few houses of the Kartoev family were demolished with heavy machinery and then torched, and as night approached, skirmishes continued while the area of the special operation remained cordoned off.

The members of HRC Memorial who were in the village found out that during the special operation, a militant had dug himself in in the basement of one of the houses. Returning fire, he killed a member of the investigative committee, after which he was neutralized.

A prayer for the dead was conducted in the yards of the neighboring houses, and there a few rocket grenades landed; however there wasn’t any information about civilian victims before the evening on March 3.

On March 4 in Ekazhevo the shooting had stopped but the district of the special operation remained cordoned off as before.

It is well known that two local citizens, having been detained on March 2, have been released(officially this had been reported about all 11 of the detainees). Also the names of three individuals have been successfully discovered, and as before they remain in the hands of the members of the security forces, Beslan Kartoev, Tarkhan Kartoev, and Tatarkhan Kartoev. The majority of those detained are young men under the age of 30.

On March 4 the shooting in the streets of Alambekov and Kartoev was already silent however the entire district was still cordoned off.

It follows that we are able at this time to confirm that the special operation in the village of Ekazhevo had not finished on March 2, rather it continued at least until the evening of March 3. However currently there isn’t any trustworthy information about the deaths or injuries amongst the civilians; it isn’t clear how many individuals were killed nor specifically who killed them; and finally there isn’t any precise information about the number of those detained nor their identities.

> For further information: www.memo.ru

* The Moscow Times (Russia and Cis)

 News summary update of March 09, 2010

 Business update of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.themoscowtimes.com

* Ministero degli Esteri (Italy)

 Ljubljana, 8 March 2010

PRESS RELEASE

Together for the European Union: Contribution of the Western Balkans to the European Future

(Slovenia, 20 March 2010)

On Saturday, 20 March 2010 a conference ’Together for the European Union: the Contribution of the Western Balkans to European Future’ will take place at Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia.

The conference will be hosted by the Prime Ministers of the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia. Participants will also include regional political leaders and senior EU representatives.

The conference aims to highlight the Western Balkans’ willingness for political and practical collaboration to aid the progress of countries in the region toward their common goal of EU membership. The conference is expected to adopt a declaration to be presented (as the region’s joint statement) at a forthcoming ministerial meeting organised under the Spanish EU Presidency.

Please note that all journalists, photojournalists, camera crews, technicians and other media representatives require accreditation badges. Please complete the accreditation form and send it to foreigninfo.ukom@gov.si no later than Monday, 15 March 2010.

You will receive full information about the conference programme, and the collection of accreditation badges and logistics at a later date.

For additional information about accreditation badges, please contact Mr Andrej Savelli (T: +386 1 478 26 98; M: +386 31 855 127).

Government Communication Office

> For further information: www.esteri.it

* Osce (Austria, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

 OSCE Mission, Italian Embassy hold seminar on fighting money laundering in Montenegro

PODGORICA, 9 March 2010 - An OSCE-supported three-day seminar on new investigation methods in money laundering and financial crime will conclude in Podgorica tomorrow.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized the seminar in co-operation with the Italian Embassy in Podgorica. Senior police officers, tax inspectors, employees of the Directorate for Anti-Money Laundering and high officials from the Public Prosecutor’s Office are taking part in the seminar, led by experts from the Guardia di Finanzia, Italy.

The Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, will speak at a closing ceremony to be held tomorrow, as will the Italian Ambassador to Montenegro, Sergio Barbanti, the Head of the II Department of Italian Guardia di Finanza, Brigadier General Michele Carbone, the Head of the Montenegro Police Directorate, Veselin Veljovic and the Head of the Directorate for Anti Money Laundering, Predrag Mitrovic.

Journalists are invited to cover the closing ceremony set to start at 12:00 on Wednesday, 10 March 2010, in

Hotel City, Crnogorskih serdara b.b., Podgorica.

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> For further information: www.osce.org

* Osservatorio sui Balcani e Caucaso (Italy, Balkans and Caucasus)

 Protagoniste, non vittime

Igballe Rogova è la leader indiscussa del movimento per i diritti delle donne del Kosovo. In occasione della festa dell’8 marzo l’abbiamo intervistata per fare il punto sui diritti al femminile a più di dieci anni dalla fine del conflitto. Ne emerge un ritratto con più ombre che luci.

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> For further information: www.osservatoriobalcani.org

* Parliament of Georgia (Georgia)

Weekly update of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.parliament.ge

* Polish Institute of International Affairs (Poland)

 Please find enclosed next issue of the Bulletin: “Argentine–British Dispute over Falklands” by Bartłomiej Znojek.

Relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom have become aggravated following the launch by a British company of oil drilling off the coasts of the Falklands. British government is adamant in defending the territory’s present status and refusing to yield to Argentine demands for negotiations on the islands’ sovereignty.

> For further information: www.pism.pl

* The Presidency of Russian Federation (Russia and Cis)

Daily news report of March 09, 2010

> For further information: http://president.kremlin.ru/eng

* Seenews (Bulgaria and Balkans)

 Daily news report of Albania (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Bosnia-Herzegovina (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Bulgaria (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Croatia (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Macedonia (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Moldova (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Montenegro (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Romania (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Serbia (March 09, 2010)

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 Daily news report of Slovenia (March 09, 2010)

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> For further information: www.seenews.com

* Transitions Online (Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia)

New at Transitions Online - March 09, 2010

 Top Stories:

1: From the Archives: ’Genocide’ on the Agenda

2: The Fourth Estate: Independent Media for Sale, Cheap

3: Society: The View from Tbilisi: Political Capital

4: Our Take: Keep It Simple

 From the Archive:

Five years ago: Listomania

Ten years ago: One Flew Over Putin’s Nest

 Announcement: Job - Part-time Departmental Lecturership

The Russian and East European Studies Programme in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies in UK seeks applications from candidates in history, modern languages, social anthropology, sociology, politics or other relevant discipline with special reference to Russian and Eastern European culture, for a part-time (50 per cent), fixed-term Departmental Lecturership in Russian and East European Studies. The lecturership is tenable from 1 October 2010 for 10 months. Deadline for applications: 26 March 2010 For more or to apply go to:

http://www.tol.org/client/job/21233-part-time-departmental-lecturership.html

> For further information: www.tol.cz

* Uzreport (Uzbekistan and Central Asia)

Daily report of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.uzreport.com

* Vanjskotrgovinska Komora Bosne i Hercegovine (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

 SI-109-10/10 Sarajevo, 09.03.2010. godine

SAOPĆENJE ZA JAVNOST

VELEPOSLANICA KRALJEVINE DANSKE U VANJSKOTRGOVINSKOJ KOMORI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE

Predsjednik Vanjskotrgovinske komore Bosne i Hercegovine Mahir Hadžiahmetović se sastao danas s Veleposlanicom Kraljevine Danske, NJ. E. Kristen Rosenvold Geelan.

Predsjednik je Veleposlanicu upoznao s tradicijom, organizacijom i aktivnostima Vanjskotrgovinske komore Bosne i Hercegovine koja je uvođenjem sistema upravljanja kvalitetom svoj način poslovanja prilagodila europskim standardima. Također je istako značaj izdavanja TIR-karneta i skorog izdavanja ATA-karneta.

Veleposlanica Kraljevine Danske je istakla pozitivan stav i odnos danskih privrednika prema Bosni i Hercegovini. Prema njenim riječima su za promociju privrede veoma korisna privredna predstavništa u inozemstvu.

Konstatirano je da je potrebno razvijati poslovnu suradnju i da postoji potencijal za poboljšanje vanjskotrgovinske robne razmjene. Trenutna vanjskotrgovinska razmjena između Kraljevine Danske i Bosne i Hercegovine nije ohrabrujuća, a mogla bi se unaprijediti osobito u oblastima metalne industrije i energetike. Za danske investitore interesantan bi bio i sektor prehrambene industrije, a Bosni i Hercegovini bi koristila nova znanja, iskustva, stručnost, oprema, tehnologija, ideje za nove proizvode i know-how.

Predsjednik Vanjskotrgovinske komore BiH je istakao značaj upoznavanja danskih privrednika s povoljnim poslovnim ambijentom u Bosni i Hercegovini. Moguće je organizirati poslovne forume, na kojima bi privrednici obje zemlje razvijali poslovne kontakte i suradnju.

> For further information: www.komorabih.ba

* Vest (Slovenia)

Daily update of March 09, 2010

> For further information: www.vest.si