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  • Ombudsman in Hungary criticizes bill on personal data collection

    HUNGARY, 2017/09/05 The Hungarian government is building a visual surveillance system capable of collecting secret data, the ombudsman for personal data protection Attila Peterfalvi said here on Monday. Following the presentation of the bill by the Ministry of the Interior last week, Peterfalvi, president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Data (NAIH), spoke on commercial radio Klubradio that "The bill would entrust records of images and sounds made by various authorities to a central data storage organization, treating them uniformly."

  • Russia Says Its Citizens Are Subject To Discrimination in Azerbaijan

    AZERBAIJAN, 2017/07/08 In response to numerous media questions about a ban on the entry to Azerbaijan for Russian citizens, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that its citizens going to that country are subject to ethnic discrimination. Since the start of this year, 25 Russian citizens have been denied entry into Azerbaijan, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, adding that they were, on average, detained for a lot of hours at the Baku airport (in a number of cases, without food, water or medical assistance, and in one case the detained person was a woman with a four-year-old child) and again forced to leave at their own expense.

  • Europe's deal with Turkey fails to deter migrant attempts for now

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/03/10

  • Slovakia opens Holocaust museum in former Nazi camp

    SLOVAKIA, 2016/01/28 Slovakia's president and prime minister have opened the country's initial Holocaust museum at a site of a former Nazi labor and concentration camp. Andrej Kiska and Robert Fico inaugurated the museum at a ceremony Tuesday in the western town of Sered. Fico said: "We are obliged to document the tragedy of the Slovak Jews." Slovakia was a Nazi puppet national during World War II. It sent over 70,000 of its Jews to Nazi concentration camps, where most of them perished and only has a tiny Jewish community today.

  • Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Dagestan Attack

    RUSSIA, 2016/01/03 Islamic National has claimed responsibility for a recent attack on tourists in the restive North Caucasus region of Russia. The SITE Intelligence Group, a US-based organization that tracks terrorists’ online activities, quoted the group as saying that it was behind the Tuesday attack. The attack took place in Derbent in the Dagestan Republic during which an unidentified assailant opened fire on tourists visiting a historic citadel. The attack killed one person and wounded 11 others, all of whom identified as Dagestani residents who came under fire from a nearby forest. Since the mid-1990s, Russia has been fighting militants in its North Caucasus region.

  • Turkey’s Israel charm offensive is all about Russia

    ISRAEL, 2015/12/16 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s new charm offensive toward Israel and his country’s Jews seems to show how a crisis over its downing of a Russian aircraft last month may help improve Istanbul’s dragging rapprochement efforts with the Jewish national. Next years of harsh rhetoric and actions against Israel, suddenly the ruling Islamist AK Party has allowed the initial ever public Hanukkah event to take place on Sunday. Erdogan followed that up on Monday by speaking positively of normalizing relations with Israel.

  • Putin Says Islamic State Financed From 40 Countries, Including G20 Members

    RUSSIA, 2015/11/17 President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic National financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 nations, inclunding some G20 member states. During the summit, “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic National (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 nations and, there are some of the G20 members part them,” Putin told the journalists. Putin as well spoke of the urgent need to curb the illegal oil trade by IS.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Eye on Sochi

    RUSSIA, 2014/02/08 The Sochi Winter Olympics are going to be remembered as the majority expensive Games on record; inclunding the majority security conscience Games ever held. Let's hope this is the only thing the Sochi Games are remembered for, other than, of course, record breaking events given by athletes from around the world. The Sochi Games are as well most prone to attacks from Islamist terrorist groups active in the North Caucasus. High on the inventory of suspects is Doku Umarov, and his Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) a group that emerged in 2007 in the Russian Autonomous Republic of Ichkeria and is seeking to have an independent national governed under shariah law and to spread world jihad. In a video released on July 3, 2013, Umarov urges his fighters to "do their utmost to derail' the (Sochi Olympic) Games."

  • Balkan countries address threats arising from illegal migration,

    EUROPE, 2013/12/16 A new fasten website used by airport border police in the region will enable additional effective exchange of data and significantly strengthen airport security, officials said. The website is part of the Bordairpol project by the Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) to help Balkan nations address threats arising from illegal migration, organised crime and terrorism. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are members of the initiative, formed in 2003 and operating through a regional forum -- its executive arm -- and a regional centre based in Skopje that implements the forum's decisions.
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