Vol. 6, Issue #13

Istanbul to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide, and visit the places from which their ancestors were gathered to be expelled. Demonstrators held signs demanding official Turkish recognition of the Armenian genocide, which the government has long denied. Turkish nationalists also demonstrated, calling the genocide claims a lie. On April 24government officially commemorated the centennial of the Battle of Gallipoli in WWI.

Istanbul to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide, and visit the places from which their ancestors were gathered to be expelled. Demonstrators held signs demanding official Turkish recognition of the Armenian genocide, which the government has long denied. Turkish nationalists also demonstrated, calling the genocide claims a lie. On April 24government officially commemorated the centennial of the Battle of Gallipoli in WWI.

cooperation in military education and personnel exchanges. South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo met his Uzbek counterpart, Kabul Berdiev, in Seoul for a five-day visit, the first trip by Uzbekistan’s top defense official to South Korea in seven years. During the talks, Berdiev and Min-koo signed a memorandum of understanding, after which Berdiev toured major defense firms in South Korea.

cooperation in military education and personnel exchanges. South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo met his Uzbek counterpart, Kabul Berdiev, in Seoul for a five-day visit, the first trip by Uzbekistan’s top defense official to South Korea in seven years. During the talks, Berdiev and Min-koo signed a memorandum of understanding, after which Berdiev toured major defense firms in South Korea.

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with a disbanded ethnic Albanian paramilitary group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), attacked a Macedonian police post near the border with Kosovo. The gunmen briefly took several border officials hostage. Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski referred to the incident as a terrorist attack and said that the gunman had called for the creation of an Albanian state. Opposition media suggested the incident had been invented by the government to distract from an ongoing corruption scandal.

On Thursday, Amnesty International accused the Czech Republic of failing to comply with a 2007 European court order to stop placing Roma children in schools for the mentally disabled regardless of the students’ capabilities. Amnesty found that Roma children comprised of almost 30% of the students in Czech Republic schools for those with mild mental disabilities, even though Roma make up less than 3% of the country’s population. The rights group also claimed that Roma pupils who go to mainstream schools are often segregated from other students.

On Tuesday, Hungary joined Poland in criticizing FBI Director James Comey’s remarks on the Holocaust, in which Comey equated Hungarian and Polish involvement to Germany’s role. As Comey said, “In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil.” In response, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry released a statement saying "The words of the FBI director bear witness to astounding insensitivity and impermissible superficiality." The FBI has not issued a public apology.

In a rare diplomatic rift between Poland and the United States,

British retailer Tesco’s sales performance in Slovakia dropped 2.8 per cent year-on-year according to company reports published on Wednesday. Tesco operates more than 150 shops in Slovakia and has been present in the country since 1996, making it one of the largest private employers in Slovakia. The company plans to unify its managements systems for its operations in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, to make the business more competitive.

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On Wednesday, Mihai Albulescu of the Romanian Ministry of

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Latvian power company Latvenergo has awarded Alstom a contract valued at over 100 million euros to refurbish 6x69MW Kamplan units for the Riga hydropower plant on the Daugauva river. The Riga hydropower plant is one of the three main hydropower plants in Latvia, which together produce more than 50% of the country's electricity.

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On April 22, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite visited Moldova and received the country’s highest state decoration, the order of the Republic of Moldova, for her personal contribution to the development of Moldovan-Lithuanian relations and her vocal support of Moldova’s efforts at EU integration. Grybauskaite also said that Moldova could confront pressure from Moscow with economic stability and increased rule of law.

NATO conducted massive cybersecurity drills in Estonia this week as part of the Alliance’s efforts to upgrade its capability to counter potential attacks from ISIS and Russia.  Teams from 16 nations took part in the Locked Shields 2015 exercise at NATO’s cyber defense center in Tallinn. The annual drill is one of the largest of its kind.

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with a disbanded ethnic Albanian paramilitary group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), attacked a Macedonian police post near the border with Kosovo. The gunmen briefly took several border officials hostage. Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski referred to the incident as a terrorist attack and said that the gunman had called for the creation of an Albanian state. Opposition media suggested the incident had been invented by the government to distract from an ongoing corruption scandal.

In a rare diplomatic rift between Poland and the United States, On Wednesday, Mihai Albulescu of the Romanian Ministry of

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