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Date: 10/03/2010
Daghestan’s new multiethnic cabinet unveiled
Ministers of the new cabinet headed by Magomedsalam Magomedov are Avar, Dargin, Lezgin, Tabasaran, Lak, Kumyk and Russian, an approximate reflection of the Republic’s ethnic composition · The new government priorities are to tackle violence, unemployment and corruption.
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Date: 09/03/2010
The Court guarantees people from Asturias to make oral or written addresses to autonomous institutions · A court from Oviedo had previously questioned the constitutionality of the Act of Use and Promotion of Asturian after a lawyer lodged an appeal for not being allowed to provide an application form in Asturian
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Date: 05/03/2010
Peoples and nations today: Kashmir
DOSSIER. Kashmir has been a hotspot ever since the establishment of India and Pakistan in 1947. Sixty years have not proved enough to settle a dispute which involves religion, a strong pro-independence will and strategic calculations of both India and Pakistan.
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Date: 03/03/2010
European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages to close down
EBLUL, founded in 1985, was granted consultative status in the European Parliament and ECOSOC. It aimed at promoting minoritised or lesser used languages and fostering linguistic diversity · Organisation members will be free to choose their own course of action.
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Date: 23/02/2010
80 pro-independence supporters arrested in Yemen’s southern territories
The wave of arrests took place after riots sparked off in southern Yemen in the last three weeks · Police officers and several shops run by people from the north have been assaulted · The population from southern Yemen feel discriminated against by Sanaa after 20 years of reunification .
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Date: 11/02/2010
Scottish National Party shifts strategy to avoid early death for the referendum on independence bill
Alex Salmond’s party is to put forward a draft instead of a referendum bill before the parliament · The move will extend the debate beyond UK general elections · As of today the vote in favour of a referendum would lose in Holyrood since opposition parties are against it.
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Date: 10/02/2010
Bosnian Serb Assembly gives green light to referendum bill
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik says new legislation is not aimed at breaking bonds with Bosnia and Herzegovina · Referendums will be non-binding · It is likely the first issue to be put to referendum will deal with the Dayton Agreement · The act stirs distrust in Bosnia and Herzegovina and among the international community.
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Date: 09/02/2010
Wales to hold referendum on transfer of powers
The majority of MP’s in the Welsh assembly voted in favour of asking the people whether more powers should be transferred from London to Cardiff · There is no date for the referendum, but it seems clear that it won’t be held before UK legislative elections due in summer.
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Date: 08/02/2010
Greenland lays foundations for full sovereignty
Greenlandic deputies in the Parliament of Denmark call for negotiations on Greenland’s inhibition in Danish domestic affairs to start · Recent estimate predict that oil and mineral-related profits could soon exceed Danish subsidies.
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Date: 05/02/2010
Peoples and nations today: Tibet
DOSSIER. Tibet is the oppressed nation par excellence and has drawn worldwide attention and solidarity. And yet the 'Free Tibet' campaigns launched in the last years by a Tibetan diaspora made up of more than 200,000 people have not been able to stop the repressive policies of the Chinese government, which is carrying out assimilation policies and promoting Han supremacy.
