Eurasia Press & News
The financial crisis in the Russian Federation has pushed up the already high rates of mortality from heart and circulatory diseases there to third world levels, according to medical experts. And that development combined with other trends likely makes the demographic future of Russia even bleaker than had been thought.
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November, 2008
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11 November
Ossetians kidnap six Georgians
Ossetians have abducted six ethnic Georgians from the villages of Zerti, Gori district. The men went to the forest for fire wood at 4pm yesterday and the separatist gunmen must have kidnapped them a few hours later.
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11 November
Greek Official Sacked for His Views
11 November 2008 Skopje – The Greek leading left-wing opposition party PASOK sacked its political communications advisor after he publicly said that Skopje has every right to be called Macedonia and that a Macedonian minority does exist in Greece.
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11 November
Financial Crisis Will Hit Serbia, UN Official
11 November 2008 Belgrade – The international financial crisis has already reached Serbia and the country must brace itself for the protracted consequences of a market slump, a top official with the United Nations Development Program said.
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Albanian MPs Go on Hunger Strike
11 November 2008 Tirana – Eleven lawmakers from Albania’s smaller parliamentary parties went on hunger strike on Monday to protest agaomst proposed changes to the electoral code.
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11 November
Serbia to Finalise Russian Gas Talks
11 November 2008 Belgrade – The Serbian government will enter the final phase of talks with Russia’s oil and gas conglomerate OAO Gazprom over the sale of the country’s Naftna Industrija Srbije, NIS, oil industry and the development of a wing of the South Stream gas pipeline, a official said on …
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11 November
Serbia Delays Answer to IMF
11 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbia will delay its answer to the International Monetary Fund over whether it will accept the financial body’s suggestion to suspend an increase in pensions until later this week, an official said on Tuesday.
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Polish Support for Macedonia
11 November 2008 Skopje – Poland supports Macedonia’s efforts to integrate into Euro-Atlantic structures and will not change its position regarding the use of its constitutional name in bilateral relations, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski said late on Monday in Warsaw.
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Israel halts fuel to Gaza power plant before enough diesel accumulated
GAZA, Nov. 11 – Israel stopped delivering fuel to Gaza power station Tuesday afternoon hours after providing insufficient amount, Palestinian officials said.
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11 November
Palestinians mark 4th anniversary of late Arafat amid Fatah-Hamas disputes
RAMALLAH, Nov. 11 – More than 8,000 Palestinians, many were Fatah supporters, gathered in the West Bank on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of late leader Yasser Arafat, while their counterparts in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the rival Hamas movement, were suppressed.
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