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Surveys show Russian nationalism is on the rise. This explains a lot about the country’s foreign and domestic politics.

By Richard Arnold

Is nationalism what really drives Russian politics?

Many politicians and political scientists (including, for example, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Zbigniew Brzezinski) argue that the 2014 annexation of Crimea showed President Vladimir Putin’s desire to construct the “Soviet Union 2.0” — and direct global affairs once more. Nationalism has been used to explain everything from Russia’s intervention in Syria, Russia’s unusually large number of hate crimes and the regime’s rush to host sporting mega-events such as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup.

Top Five Best Practices for Workplace Investigations

POSTED BY KRISTA J. STERKEN ON 31 MAY 2016POSTED IN DISCIPLINE AND TERMINATION; DISCRIMINATION, RETALIATION AND HARASSMENT; HUMAN RESOURCES/ EMPLOYER MATTERS

A well-conducted investigation can reduce workplace conflict, promote job satisfaction and inclusion, and can also help shield you from legal liability. However, the converse is also true — a botched investigation can have enormous implications, both from a business and legal perspective. Fortunately, there are a number of simple steps you can take to ensure effective workplace investigations:

• Plan each investigation first: After receiving a complaint, you should first plan the investigation — identify the appropriate investigators and interviewees, the questions to ask, and any documentation to collect and review.

Ukraine simplifies access of western medications to national pharmaceutical market

The Verkhovna Rada adopted the law, which shortens the period of registration of medicines to 10 days and provides for a simplified procedure for medicines that are already registered in the EU, the U.S., Switzerland, Australia, and Canada.

Draft law No.4484 "On Amendments to Art. 9 of the Law ‘On Medicines’(with respect to the state registration (re-registration) of medicinal products)" was supported as a basis and in general by 239 deputies with 226 votes required for the bill to pass.

A Remote Worker's Guide To Staying Healthy

By Victor Abadio, posted in Toptal  

Remote work, or working from home. A common dream that is becoming more and more a reality. 

When most people think about working in a home environment, they think they will be able to wake up late, work in their pajamas, not worry about traffic jams and so on; basically, do whatever they want. 

And, while that may be partially true, working remotely can have an effect on your physical health. That’s why it is important for remote developers to stay active and healthy, and that’s what we’re dicussing today.

Commentary: Putin’s domestic strategy: Counting the trees, missing the forest

BY WILLIAM E. POMERANZ AND KATHLEEN SMITH

Russian President Vladimir Putin strides the world as the master tactician. 

In Crimea, eastern Ukraine and Syria, he seized the initiative and left his adversaries flatfooted and guessing as to his ultimate intentions.

Putin displays similar decisiveness against his domestic opponents, as the recent dismantling of the editorial staff at the independent newspaper RBC attests. Yet, blinkered decision-making processes can lead to bad policy choices. Having gutted the domestic media and created a puppet legislature, Putin is no exception to this rule.

Putin, Türkiye ile ilişkileri düzeltmek istiyormuş...!

sevil nuriyeva 

Putin’in Yunanistan ziyareti sırasında, Bizans’tan kalma koltuğa sembolik olarak oturduktan sonra Türkiye ile ilişkileri düzeltme isteğini ifade etmesi, ne tesadüf, ne de samimi bir itiraf olarak yorumlanmalıdır. 

Belli ki Rusya, bu ciddi sıkışıklıktan kurtulmak için yollar aramakta. İçeride halkının itirazlarını duymakta. Ekonomik olarak sıkıntıların isyana götürebileceğini biliyor. Çünkü kendi halkını ve toplumunu tanıyor.

The parliament of Ukraine lowers excise duty on import of used cars: popular models to become up to EUR 4,000 cheaper

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tuesday adopted the bill on amendments to the Tax Code to encourage the development of the market for used vehicles, which assumes a significant reduction in the excise tax on import of used vehicles.

The bill will come into force from the first day of the month following its publication according to a separate amendment supported by the MPs. During the vote for the amendment, head of the Parliamentary Tax Committee Nina Yuzhanina said that this provision is contrary to the norms of the Tax Code, stressing that the law should come into force from January 1, 2017. MPs had to vote three times to pass this particular amendment.

Utilizing IP Addresses to Subpoena Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

By Colleen M. Devanney and Jordan S. Cohen on May 31, 2016Posted in Identify Anonymous Defamers, Internet Defamation General

The majority of online defamation is posted anonymously or pseudonymously, and many cases require issuing subpoenas—including to internet service providers (ISPs)—to identify the unknown posters.

As discussed below, this process often involves obtaining internet protocol (IP) addresses from an entity, in response to a subpoena; determining the ISPs that own the respective IP addresses produced by the subpoenaed entity;  and then issuing additional subpoenas to those ISPs.

Subpoena process generally

New Prosecutor General of Ukraine: For All Comes Paycheck!

Thanks to the Verkhovna Rada the amendments to the Law on the Prosecutor simplified possibilities for absentia conviction for especially grave crimes.

And so began: persons who have committed offenses under Article 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and security) and Article 11 (high treason) of the Criminal Code, including:

- 327 judges,

- 299 prosecutors,

- 134 members of the Sevastopol City Council and the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,

- 11 self-proclaimed representatives of the Crimean authorities.

Is There A Difference Between Firing Because of Age vs. Salary?

By Daniel Schwartz on May 31st, 2016 Posted in Discrimination & Harassment, Highlight

Up on Fortune magazine’s column “Practically Speaking” is the following question:

Frank has been with us for more than 20 years. He works in the warehouse and has done a good job for us. I like him. But, to be honest, for the work he performs I could easily replace him someone younger and … cheaper. Would it be wrong to let him go?

Well, what a loaded question.  The advice column side-steps an important issue and gets into a discussion regarding overhead, benefits, etc.

If you follow this path blindly, you may walk right into a lawsuit.

Why? Because discrimination laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of age and you’re already acknowledging that you want someone “younger” — even if salary considerations may also be involved.

In fact, there have already been cases that talk about similar scenarios.

European Commission and IT Companies announce Code of Conduct on illegal online hate speech

Brussels, 31 May 2016

The Commission together with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft (“the IT companies”) today unveil a code of conduct that includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech online in Europe.

The IT Companies support the European Commission and EU Member States in the effort to respond to the challenge of ensuring that online platforms do not offer opportunities for illegal online hate speech to spread virally.  They share, together with other platforms and social media companies, a collective responsibility and pride in promoting and facilitating freedom of expression throughout the online world. However, the Commission and the IT Companies recognise that the spread of illegal hate speech online not only negatively affects the groups or individuals that it targets, it also negatively impacts those who speak out for freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination in our open societies and has a chilling effect on the democratic discourse on online platforms.

CODE OF CONDUCT ON COUNTERING ILLEGAL HATE SPEECH ONLINE (PDF)

Facebook, Microsoft* , Twitter and YouTube (hereinafter "the IT Companies") – also involved in the EU Internet Forum – share, together with other platforms and social media companies, a collective responsibility and pride in promoting and facilitating freedom of expression throughout the online world.

The IT Companies also share the European Commission's and EU Member States' commitment to tackle illegal hate speech online.

Illegal hate speech, as defined by the Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law and national laws transposing it, means all conduct publicly inciting to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

CODE OF CONDUCT ON COUNTERING ILLEGAL HATE SPEECH ONLINE (PDF)

Eurojust coordinates cross-border action against money laundering network

The Hague, 31 May 2016

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Today, a coordination centre at Eurojust supported an action day against a criminal network involved in international money laundering, criminal acts relating to organised bankruptcy and aggravated fraud. Starting in the early hours of the morning, approximately 50 simultaneous searches of homes and premises, more than 150 seizures of bank accounts related to the suspects and linked companies, as well as witness hearings, were carried out in Italy, Portugal and Slovenia. Operations are also ongoing in other countries.

Complete rule of law collapse – Zatoka, Odessa

BY NIKOLAI HOLMOV

Not far from the metropolis of Odessa, a few kilometers along the Black Sea coastline, sits the small town of Zatoka.

To be frank, it is little more than an increasingly dilapidated Soviet holiday destination with decaying Soviet holiday complexes, and is also “datcha-ville” for those that desire a small (usually less than comfortable) holiday hovel on or by the sea.

Throughout the many years this blog has been running Zatoka has managed to gain a mentionbut once for nefarious reasons that are relevant to this entry – the desire to obtain this seaside land (relatively) cheaply and develop it.

Poland Revives Effort to Extradite Roman Polanski

By SEWELL CHAN and JOANNA BERENDT

LONDON — The Polish government said on Tuesday that it would revive an effort to extradite the filmmaker Roman Polanski, whom the American authorities have wanted for decades. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to Europe the following year, on the eve of his sentencing.

The announcement is the latest twist in a long-running legal battle that, at least in Poland, seemed to have ended.

On Oct. 30, a judge in Krakow, Poland, ruled that turning over Mr. Polanski would be an “obviously unlawful” deprivation of liberty and that the state of California was unlikely to provide humane conditions of confinement for the filmmaker, who is 82. The next month, the Krakow prosecutor’s office said it would abide by the judge’s ruling.

EU to label Russia a ‘strategic challenge’

By Georgi Gotev

Until the illegal annexation of Crimea, the European Union had labelled Russia its “strategic partner”. But in the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, which is expected to be unveiled at the end of June, the bloc will label Russia its “strategic challenge”, a diplomat said yesterday (30 May).

More than a decade after the 2003 European Security Strategy prepared by Javier Solana, EU leaders tasked foreign affairs chief Mogherini to prepare a new EU Global Strategy to guide the Union’s global actions in the future. The Strategy will be presented by Mogherini to EU leaders at the 28-29 June summit, days after the 23 June referendum of Europe in the UK.

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Ministry of Economy clarifies the application of the UAE Commercial Companies Law to LLCs

Written by Philip O`Riordan, Justine Reeves and Rebecca Hilton

Key PJSC provisions applied to LLCs
• Directors' liability
• Audited accounts
• Accounts filing
• Auditor provisions
• Right to call a general meeting

Key PJSC provisions not applied to LLCs
• Financial assistance
• Board formation and composition
• Director remuneration
• Related party transactions
• Restrictions on powers of the directors

Additional rules created by the Ministry specifically for LLCs

No extension to 30 June 2016 deadline

Since the new UAE Commercial Companies Law came into effect on 1 July 2015, there has been much market commentary on the application of the Law to Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). 

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Remarks by the HR/VP Federica Mogherini at the joint press conference with Mr Adel Al-Jubeir, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Thank you very much. It is a pleasure for me to be in Jeddah, for the second time in an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the last year. We meet very often in multilateral meetings and regional events, but it is always a pleasure for me to back for an official visit. I understand that it is also a special time, on the eve of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Summit that is going to be particularly important. So I am particularly glad to be here in this moment.

As the minister mentioned, we discussed a whole range of bilateral issues. The relation between the European Union and Saudi Arabia is strong and deep in many different fields and we focused particularly on issues related to visa but also economic differentiation and economic and trade relations, in particular the opportunities that Vision 2030 offers for our bilateral cooperation in a series of technical fields.

REUTERS SUMMIT-Poland aims to end long-term gas supplies from Russia after 2022

(For other news from Reuters Eastern Europe Investment Summit, click here)

May 30 Poland does not plan to renew a long-term gas supply contract with Russia when its current deal with Gazprom expires in 2022, a government official responsible for gas and power infrastructure told Reuters on Monday.

Polish state-run gas firm PGNiG buys up to 10.2 bcm of gas a year from Russian gas giant Gazprom, accounting for the bulk of Poland's annual consumption of nearly 15 bcm. The contract, signed in 1996, expires in 2022.

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PayPal halts operations in Turkey as local authorities reject license application

Global online payment platform PayPal has announced that it stopped operations in Turkey, as it could not get the necessary license from local authorities, in a written statement on May 30. 

“As our license applications to local authorities were rejected and the related authority wanted us to stop our operations in Turkey, we need to take this decision,” said the company.

PayPal noted it would continue its efforts to take the required licenses in Turkey. 

President: Judicial reform is protection of rights of citizens to justice and truth

President Petro Poroshenko urged people’s deputies to support constitutional amendments on judicial reform and new edition of the Law on Judiciary and Status of Judges.

Speculation about the talks between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund is a fake and an attempt to jeopardize the economic stability of the country

The released by certain politicians so-called Draft Memorandum of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund appears not to be a real document and meant to be promulgated with the only purpose to discredit the cooperation of Ukraine with the IMF and to endanger the economic stability of the country. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during his communication with media people at JSCIlyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol in Donetsk region on Monday, May 30.

NATO urged to ward off 'serious' Russian challenge

  Tirana (AFP) - NATO's parliamentary assembly on Monday called on members of the Western military alliance to be ready to respond to the "potential threat" of Russian aggression against them.

The assembly issued a unanimous declaration of proposals after a three-day meeting in Tirana, ahead of a landmark NATO summit in Warsaw in July.

"The challenge from Russia is real and serious," said Michael Turner, the US president of the assembly, which gathered around 250 lawmakers from the 28 member states.

CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission solemnly proclaim the following text as the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

The peoples of Europe, in creating an ever closer union among them, are resolved to share a peaceful future based on common values.

Conscious of its spiritual and moral heritage, the Union is founded on the indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; it is based on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. It places the individual at the heart of its activities, by establishing the citizenship of the Union and by creating an area of freedom, security and justice.