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Jewish leader speaks out on march
Head of Prague Jewish Community says neo-Nazis are after PR

RFE/RL reporter released in Iraq
Correspondent's captors demanded $100,000 ransom

Half of unit resigns with Kubice
Row over head of organized crime police squad continues

Register now to vote in U.S. primaries

Jiří Čunek resigns, finally
Behind the scenes of the minister's final days

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GEORGIA Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Tbilisi Nov. 2 against the current government, demanding parliamentary elections early next year and chanting remarks hostile to President Mikheil Saakashvili, according to The New York Times. Saakashvili amended the constitution last year to extend Parliament’s term from next spring to next fall, to coincide with presidential elections.

RUSSIA The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced Nov. 2 that it would send a small crew of people to monitor the country’s Dec. 2 election. Moscow has said it will allow 70 monitors instead of the hundreds that had been allowed in the past, according to The New York Times.
POLAND Jarosław Kaczyński stepped down as the country’s prime minister Nov. 5 after a defeat in the polls Oct. 21. The prime minister designate, Donald Tusk, said in an interview that the new government will end the country’s participation in Iraq in its “current form” next year, according to Agence France Presse.
ITALY Prime Minister Romano Prodi signed an emergency decree Oct. 31 allowing the deportation of European Union citizens considered dangerous. The decree was prompted by the murder of an Italian woman, allegedly by a Romanian man. Since the decree was issued, several Romanians have been expelled from Italy.
NETHERLANDS The government suspended aid to Pakistan Nov. 5 in response to President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule Nov. 3. Officials suspended the remainder of the $22 million that should have been going to Pakistan this year as well as the $58 million it planned to give Pakistan next year mostly for educational and environmental purposes, according to the Associated Press.

KOSOVO Prompted by a UN peacekeeping request, 116 Czech troops flew to Kosovo Nov. 5, according to the Czech News Agency (ČTK). The troops will join a 440-strong contingent to help reinforce national security during Kosovo’s Nov. 17 elections.

OPPONENT The opposition Social Democrats nominated economist Jan Švejnar Nov. 3 as the party’s candidate against incumbent Václav Klaus in the 2008 presidential election, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) reported. To receive the minority coalition’s backing, Švejnar must gain the approval of the Christian Democrats and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.
RADAR Opposition leader Jiří Paroubek met with U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Henry Obering Nov. 5 amid a round of talks about the planned construction of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil. Paroubek maintained his party’s position and refused to condone the radar base without a referendum, according to MfD.
LEAK The state attorney’s office launched a criminal investigation into possible information leaks at the state’s counter-intelligence service (BIS) Nov. 5, following October allegations that an unknown BIS employee disclosed classified information to the media, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported.
PARAMILITARY Interior Minister Ivan Langer opposes the ultra-right National Party’s plans to establish a paramilitary National Guard unit at the end of this month, ČTK reported Nov. 11. All of the party’s actions will be closely monitored by the police, he added.

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