Publications Ukrainian parliament delays final vote on anti-corruption law    (2 Mb)

ISSUE #07
03/07/2011

The Ukrainian parliament has debated and voted in favor of 33 clauses of a draft law on preventing and fighting corruption in Ukraine, which was proposed by President Viktor Yanukovych. The lawmakers sent part of Article 12 of the draft law, which talks about declaring the revenue and expenditure of state officials, for revision. READ MORE

• March 11, 2011

Publications Fighting corruption in Ukraine: ukrainian style – Round table    (110 Kb)

Parliament members attempt softening provisions of anti-corruption law as much as possible to satisfy personal needs – Experts

The Gorshenin Institute held a round table discussion Fighting Corruption: Ukrainian Style, where experts discussed the problem of corruption in the country and the ways to combat it.
The participants in the round-table discussion said that the corruption-fighting shall be managed by authorities independent from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and working on different principles than the Ministry. READ MORE

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• March 11, 2011

News US vice president in talks with Russia's Putin

US Vice President Joe Biden was due Thursday to meet Russia's strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and deliver a key-note address highlighting the accomplishments of the two sides' "reset" in ties.

• March 10, 2011

News Biden, in Russia, turns to talk of trade

Vice President Biden told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday that he had been around Washington so long he actually knew Sen. Henry Jackson and Rep. Charles Vanik, authors of a 1974 trade restriction law that is still an irritant in U.S.-Russian relations. It is high time to get rid of it, he said.

• March 10, 2011

News Iran slams West nuclear claim

The United States and the EU have once again repeated the unfounded claims questioning the peaceful nature of our nuclear activities without presenting any authenticated evidence, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told to reporters in the Austrian capital

• March 10, 2011

News Uzbek president approves intergovernmental agreement on cooperation with Qatar

Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a decree to approve an Uzbek-Qatari intergovernmental agreement on economic, trade and technical cooperation, an agreement on legal cooperation and a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources for sustainable development.

• March 10, 2011

News Armenian president to visit Latvia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will on Wednesday embark on a two-day official visit to Latvia on the invitation of his counterpart Valdis Zatlers, Sargsyan's press service reported.

• March 9, 2011

News Lukoil to develop renewable energy projects in Bulgaria and Romania

Russia's oil giant Lukoil intends to develop wind and solar power plants in Bulgaria and Romania, Vasily Zubakin, deputy head of the company's main energy division, said as quoted by news agency Ria Novosti.

• March 9, 2011