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| Carpathian Ruthenia or a new neighbour on the horizon? |
Michal Ondrejèík | 01.08.2010
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In the following lines I shall speak of a republic which strives to compete with Ukrainian power in the Zakarpattia Oblast. The reason for its origin is the fact that since 1991 Ukraine has been ignoring the requests of Carpathian Rusyns, who supported the status of a special self-governing administrative territory in the 1991 referendum by 78.2 percent of votes. This autonomy of Carpathian Rusyns has remained unrealized until present time. Following many attempts to negotiations with Ukrainian representatives, on 1 December, 2008, Rusyn activists decided to declare the restoration of pre-Soviet status of the Republic of Carpathian Ruthenia because according to Rusyn representatives, Czechoslovakia doesn't exist any longer , and the only way to realize this status is the declaration...
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| Does Belgrade betray the interests of Kosovo Serbs? An interview with State Secretary Oliver Ivanoviæ and the leader of Kosovo Serbs Marko Jakšiæ |
| Martin Braxatoris | 10.09.2009
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Oliver Ivanoviæ is the State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, former Speaker of the Serb National Council of Kosovska Mitrovica and former leader of Kosovo Serbs. He is a karate grandmaster. During the war, he was an active leader of Serbian home defense in the north of Kosovo. He was a member of the negotiation team at international talks on the status of Kosovo. Marko Jakšiæ is the Vice Chairperson of the Association of Serb Municipalities and Settlements of northern Kosovo and Metohija and factual leader of Kosovo Serbs. He is a member of Vojislav Koštunicaʼs Democratic Party of Serbia and doctor at the orthopaedic clinic of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica where he has been a director until recently. He was a member of the negotiation team...
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| Gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine and its impact on the energy policy of Poland |
| Juraj Marušiak | 08.02.2009
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Poland has been covering the majority, almost three quarters, of its earth gas consumption by supplies from the gas pipeline Yamal. Only the remaining third of raw material supply flows through Ukrainian gas pipelines. Therefore the cut of gas supplies for Ukraine, which the Russian concern Gazprom carried out in January 2009, didn't have such an impact on Polish economy as on other countries dependent on Russian energy material supplies, for instance, Bulgaria and Slovakia. Problems with earth gas supply, however, haven't been solved by the conclusion of an agreement signed by the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko. Gazpromʼs daughter company RosUkrEnergo (RUE), which fulfilled the task of an intermediary as regards gas supplies for Ukraine, was expelled from Ukrainian market...
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| Repeated dispute over earth gas between Ukraine and the Russian Federation |
| Peter Ševce | 09.01.2009
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Like in recent years, relations between the Russian Federation (RF) and Ukraine ended in stalemate also this time at the turn of years. This yearʼs earth gas dispute has been lasting the longest and is at the same time the most dramatic one. Concurrently, itʼs marked by traditional statements about both sides fulfilling their commitments to consumers and blaming each other. The perfect image of relations is completed by the gas volume flowing into consumer countries because this isn't agreed on contractually. Even supplies have been cut off entirely for the first time in the history of consumer and supplier relations. Both sides simultaneously address the European Union (EU) more often in order to win its favour and make it rebuke the other one. At the beginning, however, the Union was only capable of making statements about mutual economic...
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| Gas power plants as a part of the energy mix of the Slovak Republic |
| Peter Ševce | 17.11.2008
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Recently, there have been several intentions to construct earth gas power plants announced in Slovakia. Among them are concrete intentions as well as preliminary information on their position and output. This development stands for new challenge for the country because their conduction will have to be included in the energy mix and several questions linked with them will have to be solved. The Slovak Republic committed itself within the EU accession talks to shut down two blocs of the nuclear power plant V1 in Jaslovské Bohunice by 2009. The first bloc was shut down on 31st December, 2006, and the second one will be shut down on 31st December, 2008. According to the latest information, however, the Slovak Republic consumed more energy than it generated as early as 2007 and this trend will continue in next years...
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| Serbia after the arrest of Radovan Karadžiæ – the condition of the discussion about relations with the EU and the stance on own past |
| Darina Ondrušová | 29.10.2008
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After thirteen years, Radovan Karadžiæ, the Bosnian Serb heading Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992 – 1996, was among the last to be taken to the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in order to face charges of war crimes committed during the worst military conflict in Europe in the 1990's. That's why the notion that not only his active political work, but also his arrest and extradition to the Hague may have implications for relations between Serbia and the European Union (EU) sounds kind of paradoxically. The objective of this analysis is to answer the questions what Karadžiæ's arrest means for Serbia at present, why this didn't happen earlier and what the implications will be like. First of all, we'll try to elaborate on Radovan Karadžiæ's profile in terms of political life and events which...
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| The importance of gas trading hubs for Slovakia |
| Peter Ševce | 24.07.2008
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The establishment of a single European natural gas market has been the objective of the European Commission (EC) for a long time. This objective is embodied primarily in liberalisation efforts the last result of which was introduced in September 2007 in terms of the third liberalisation package proposal. The EC started making these efforts in the 1990's when Europe began to perceive shortages within the existent organisation of domestic natural gas market. Among the most burning issues are the monopolistic positions of gas giants in certain areas, their oligopolistic status in the EU, the vertical integration of energy companies, long-term contracts with suppliers and the limitation of competition as well as the market entry of new players. Gas consumption in the EU has been growing. Long-range prospects don't change anything...
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