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Saudi Arabia 'planning mass executions'

Amnesty International has expressed alarm at reports that the authorities in Saudi Arabia are planning to execute dozens of people in a single day. The newspaper Okaz said 55 people were awaiting execution for "terrorist crimes", while a now-deleted report by al-Riyadh said 52 would die soon.

They are thought to include Shia who took part in anti-government protests. Amnesty said that given the spike in executions this year, it had no option but to take the reports very seriously. The group believes at least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year - the highest recorded figure since 1995. In 2014, the total number of executions carried out was reported to be 90.

'Unfair trials'

The Saudi newspaper reports said those facing execution in the coming days included "al-Qaeda terrorists" and people from the Awamiya area. The alleged al-Qaeda militants were accused of attempting to overthrow the government and carry out attacks using small arms, explosives and surface-to-air missiles, Okaz reported. The Awamiya residents were meanwhile convicted of sedition, attacks on security personnel and interference in neighbouring Bahrain, it said. Awamiya is a town in the Qatif region of oil-rich Eastern Province.

Since 2011, it has been the centre of protests by Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, which has long complained of marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni monarchy. Among those at imminent risk of execution were six Shia activists from Awamiya "who were clearly convicted in unfair trials", according to Amnesty.

"It is clear that the Saudi Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores," said James Lynch, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa deputy director.

"Three of those six activists were sentenced for 'crimes' committed while they were children and have said that they were tortured to confess."

The three juvenile offenders are Ali al-Nimr - whose case sparked a global outcry earlier this year - Abdullah al-Zaher and Hussein al-Marhoon. On Tuesday, the mothers of five of the six activists wrote to King Salman, imploring him to grant clemency, after learning that their sons had been subjected to a "random" medical examination. They believed it was a sign of impending execution. Four of the five have been kept in solitary confinement, in a wing housing death row inmates, since being moved to al-Hair prison in Riyadh in early October.

"These executions must not go ahead and Saudi Arabia must lift the veil of secrecy around its death penalty cases, as part of a fundamental overhaul of its criminal justice system," Mr Lynch warned.

Last month, the UK foreign secretary said he did not expect Ali al-Nimr - the nephew of a prominent Shia cleric also sentenced to death - to be executed. Saudi Arabia argues that death sentences are carried out in line with Sharia and with the strictest fair trial standards and safeguards in place./write by BBC News, editing by newsflashv.

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Range of Frustrations Reached Boil as Turkey Shot Down Russian Jet

Turkey and Russia promised on Wednesday not to go to war over the downing of a Russian fighter jet, leaving Turkey’s still-nervous NATO allies and just about everyone else wondering why the country decided to risk such a serious confrontation.

The reply from the Turkish government so far has been consistent: Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Though minor airspace violations are fairly common and usually tolerated, Turkey had repeatedly called in Russia’s ambassador to complain about aircraft intrusions and about bombing raids in Syria near the border. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday evening and a Pentagon spokesman later confirmed that before a Turkish F-16 shot down the Russian Su-24 jet, Turkish forces had warned the Russian plane 10 times in five minutes to steer away.

“I personally was expecting something like this, because in the past months there have been so many incidents like that,” Ismail Demir, Turkey’s undersecretary of national defense, said in an interview. “Our engagement rules were very clear, and any sovereign nation has a right to defend its airspace.”

While that may be true, analysts said Mr. Erdogan had several more nuanced reasons to allow Turkish pilots to open fire. These include his frustration with Russia over a range of issues even beyond Syria, the Gordian knot of figuring out what to do with Syria itself and Turkey’s strong ethnic ties to the Turkmen villages Russia has been bombing lately in the area of the crash.

Turkey has been quietly seething ever since Russia began military operations against Syrian rebels two months ago, wrecking Ankara’s policy of ousting the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Turks were forced to downgrade their ambitions from the ouster of Mr. Assad to simply maintaining a seat at the negotiating table when the time comes, saidSoner Cagaptay, a Turkish analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a nonpartisan research group.

“That would require Turkey-backed rebels to be present in Syria, and I think Turkey was alarmed that Russia’s bombing of positions held by Turkey-backed rebels in northern Syria was hurting their positions and therefore Turkey’s future stakes in Syria,” Mr. Cagaptay said. “So this is also an aggressive Turkey posture in the Syrian civil war to prevent the defeat of Turkey-backed rebels so they can hold onto territory and have a say in the future of Syria.”

But the fate of the particular rebels the Russians were bombing in the mountainous Bayirbucak area where the plane was shot down is more than just a policy matter to the Turks. Mr. Erdogan particularly emphasized the ethnic tie in a speech Tuesday evening, saying, “We strongly condemn attacks focusing on areas inhabited by Bayirbucak Turkmen  we have our relatives, our kin there.”

The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said as much on Wednesday while dismissing Russia’s explanation that it was fighting a common enemy, the Islamic State. “No one,” he said, “can legitimize attacks on Turkmens in Syria using the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.

The bombing was creating political problems for Mr. Erdogan, Mr. Cagaptay said. “In the days leading up to the incident, many newspapers, especially the pro-government publications, were running headlines highlighting the suffering of the Turkmens, who are closely related to Anatolian Turks,” he said. “I think the government felt that, in terms of domestic politics, it had to do something to ease some of this pressure that had resulted from the Russian bombardment against Turkmens in northern Syria.”

Russia’s bombing of Turkmen villages was to be the principal issue Turkey raised with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in talks that had been set for Wednesday but were canceled after the shooting down of the plane.

Mr. Erdogan’s emphasis on helping the Turkmens has another important political dimension in Turkey. Mr. Erdogan’s political party emphasized Turkish ethnic identity and Sunni Muslim faith in the campaign leading up to critical elections on Nov. 1, as it competed with one rival party heavily composed of Turkey’s Kurdish minority and another committed to preserving Turkey’s status as a secular society and state.

Mr. Erdogan managed an important victory in that election, preserving his chances of winning legislative approval to change the Constitution and turn the country’s parliamentary system into a presidential one.

Complicating matters further, Turkey and Syria have a longstanding border dispute in exactly the area where the Russian plane, a Sukhoi Su-24, was shot down, and Russia has sometimes voiced support for Syria’s claim. It is a narrow strip of territory, the Hatay Province of Turkey, that runs south along the Mediterranean Sea, deep into Syria.

The province is a melting pot of ethnic Turks and Arabs. It is also a religious mélange, with many Muslims but also a large Christian population, as Hatay includes the biblical city of Antioch. And the province has an acrimonious history.

The League of Nations granted Hatay Province to France after World War I as part of France’s legal mandate over Syria. Ethnic Turks led the province’s secession from Syria and declaration of an independent republic in 1938, and that republic then joined Turkey the next year  much as Texas seceded from Mexico a century earlier, became a republic and soon joined the United States.

Syria has periodically questioned the loss of Hatay over the years. “If you look at Syrian maps, that province, that chunk of territory, is shown as belonging to Syria,” said Altay Atli, an international relations specialist at Bogazici University.

When Hatay seceded from the French mandate of Syria, Hatay’s borders did not encompass all of the ethnic Turks in the area; many Turkmens remained just across the border in what is now northernmost Syria. For decades, it was difficult for families divided on either side of the border by the secession of Hatay to even visit one another. Tensions finally began to ease during the years immediately before the Arab Spring, but they have resumed in the last several years as Turkey has led calls for the removal of Mr. Assad.

The fact that Russia has over the years expressed sympathy for Syria’s claim to Hatay makes the province even more delicate for Turkey, and Tuesday’s incident with the Russian jet even more important, said James F. Jeffrey, a former American ambassador to Turkey who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

He questioned whether the Russian jet had strayed into Hatay Province’s airspace accidentally or whether Russia might have been deliberately allowing incursions by its jets during military activities in Syria because of Hatay’s tangled history.

“Turkey was tired of Russia’s intimidating Turkey,” he said.

The Russian and Ottoman Empires battled for centuries for control over the area from the Balkans to the Black Sea, and vestiges of that bloody rivalry keep arising. One of those is reflected in Turkey’s deep concern about Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, said Murat Yesiltas, the director of security studies at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, a large research group in Ankara with close government links.

Turkey now faces across the Black Sea a much wider arc of territory occupied by Russian forces. Many in Turkey are further upset by Russia’s treatment of the Crimean Tatars, who speak a Turkic language and have opposed the Russian annexation. Most of the Crimean Tatars’ leaders have been forced into exile by Russia, and this week Tatars have been blocking repair crews from restringing crucial power lines to Crimea that were mysteriously blown up over the weekend, producing a nearly total blackout on the peninsula.

“Turkey wants to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Mr. Yesiltas said. Turkey has already provided economic assistance to Ukraine, but it has been reluctant to confront Moscow more publicly because Russia is one of Turkey’s biggest export markets and supplies three-fifths of Turkey’s natural gas.

With President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia saying things about the jet’s downing like, “We will never tolerate such crimes like the one committed today” and warning of “serious consequences,” the biggest question perhaps is what comes next.

Russia on Wednesday announced plans to deploy its most modern air-defense system, the S-400 mobile antiaircraft missile, to its air base outside Latakia. But while most experts and Mr. Erdogan himself, in remarks on Wednesday play down concerns of a wider confrontation, many worry that the biggest losers from Tuesday’s incident could be the Turkmens.

While the jet’s two crew members were able to eject from the plane, Russia said that one of them was killed  possibly by fire from the ground as he floated to earth  as was a marine sent in a helicopter that was shot down by local ground forces while trying to rescue the pilots; the Kremlin said the second crew member had been rescued by Russian special forces.

Several experts warned that Mr. Putin may step up his country’s attacks on the Turkmens in retaliation.

“They’re the real target,” Mr. Jeffrey said. “He can just plaster them.”

Ukraine stops buying Russian gas, closes airspace

Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated Wednesday as Ukraine decided to stop buying Russian natural gas — hoping to rely on supplies from other countries — and closed its airspace to its eastern neighbor.

Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and its support for separatist rebels in the east has brought relations between the two countries to a post-Soviet low. Ukraine has since been trying to cut its dependence on Russian gas.

Russia's state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, said Wednesday that it stopped sending gas to Ukraine on Wednesday morning and will supply no more because Ukraine has not paid in advance for more deliveries.

Ukraine said it was its own decision to stop buying gas from Russia after it was offered better prices from other European countries. Those other countries import gas from Russia but can pipe it back to Ukraine.

The stoppage comes less than two months after the two countries signed an EU-brokered deal ensuring supplies through March. Under the deal, Russia lowered the price it charged Ukraine to the same level granted to neighboring countries, from $251 per 1,000 cubic meters to about $230.

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller on Wednesday warned Ukraine and Europe of possible gas disruptions following the cut-off. Russia uses Ukraine's pipelines to transport a part of its gas deliveries to other European countries.

Ukraine's "refusal to buy Russian gas threatens a safe gas transit to Europe through Ukraine and gas supplies to Ukraine consumers in the coming winter," Miller said.

The Gazprom chief said Ukraine had been buying up gas to store for the coming winter in the past two months but claimed it was not enough to get it through the winter.

On the other hand, the EU's executive arm, the European Commission which has been mediating the gas row between the sides, noted that Ukraine's gas reserves are well stocked and that the mild recent weather means that consumption has been below average.

"We are not particularly concerned about the gas flows from Russia to Ukraine at the moment," said Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.

Past gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine have led to cutoffs. One standoff in 2009 caused serious disruptions in shipments EU countries in the dead of winter.

Temperatures in Ukraine, where most homes rely on gas for central heating, were below freezing Wednesday morning.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk also announced that his government has decided to close the country's airspace to all Russian planes as "an issue of the national security as well as a response to Russia's aggressive actions.'

Ukraine last month banned all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine but Russian planes have been allowed to fly over its territory./AP, editing by newsflashv.

Kumanovo in 09.05.2015

By www.think.mk

Ambassador Alexander Orlov said on Europe-1 radio Wednesday that one of the pilots was wounded, then killed on the ground by "jihadists."

Russia's ambassador to France says a Russian military pilot shot down over Turkey is in the hands of the Syrian army.

Ambassador Alexander Orlov said on Europe-1 radio Wednesday that one of the pilots was wounded, then killed on the ground by "jihadists."

He says the other "managed to escape and be rescued by the Syrian army." He didn't elaborate.

Orlov denied Turkish government statements that the Russian plane had been warned repeatedly about an airspace violation before shooting it down plane.

Orlov accused Turkey of being an "accomplice" of Islamic State extremists and playing an ambiguous role in Syria's civil war.

However he played down concerns of escalation of violence among the international players involved in Syria.

The HeadHunter Group are looking for candidates from EU Countries, Central Europe for Chief Operation Officer

The HeadHunter Group is an innovative Staffing and Recruiting Company operating in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. We offer the newest mentality in Staffing industry and our core business are Candidates and Clients. For our Client a global leader and provider of Services for Production of the Identity Documents, based in Tirana, Albania, we are looking for candidates from EU Countries, Central Europe:

CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER

The Chief Operation Officer is responsible for all Operation activities, including but not limited to, Enrolment, IT Production Systems, Production and IT Security.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         The Chief Operation Officer has, by delegation from the CEO, the responsibility of the production of Identity Documents for Albanian Citizens; 

·         Maintain, develop and optimize the infrastructure including the Production facilities (IT System, Data Center and PKI) and the remote Enrolment Centers (400 in peak time);

·         Responsibility for New Systems implementation in Operation from any Suppliers. This task covers continuous corrective action plan, new Systems planned to be implemented, in agreement with Contract requirements and International Standards (ISO, ICAO, ETSI ...);

·         Customer technical relationship and follow-up with Government entities, regulatory authorities and Clients for the promotion of new potentials ID Products and Services;

·         Could act as CEO Deputy in his absence;

·         Team-playing attitude;

·         Self-motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

·         Experience with Telerik UI controls (Windows Forms or ASP.NET);

·         Senior Engineer with strong technical skills in National eID and biometric Passports end to end Production processes (including IT Security);

·         IT Systems infrastructure specialist for ID Documents and solution process expert;

·         Multi discipline know-how; Specialist in eID IT Systems (including PKI, ISO standards) & but also in other operational aspects as Electrics, Mechanics, Logistics, Security;

·         Strong management skills and able to manage a team of 250 people (500 in peak time);

·         Good capacity of expression and good presentation as in contact with the Client;

·         Involved in achieving the best result in ensuring high quality, security and delivery;

·         Service skills, rigor, ability to analyze and understand the Customer needs; 

·         Autonomy and excellent reporting (verbal and writing);

·         Quick learning, very good knowledge of informatics tools office, MS Project;

·         Able to work in a different cultural environment (Government needs), and as an expatriate in the Balkans.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

·         Significant experience (15 years) in ID Cards, Passports & Biometric Projects;

·         Experience (15 years) in Operating IT Production Systems for biometric ID Documents;

·         Experience in leading people in Operation and Management of a big structure;

·         Technical experience or knowledge of Company eID IT Systems; 

·         Knowledge of ID Project environment (PKI, ISO standard, ETSI, ID Services) and Security procedures.

LANGUAGES: Bilingual English; French.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Working in a Balkans country as Albania requires being able to bear working under high pressure in a very sensitive political environment.  The Operation Manager position requests a huge availability to work overtime, even 7 days a week. Missions abroad are expected.

REMUNERATION/ SALARY: Highly competitive.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Are you interested in a new challenge in an innovative company? Have you answered well our questions related this position? Then we look forward to getting to know you and offer to you a very innovative challenge that will change your life forever! The interested candidates are invited to send their application documents (a Cover Letter and a CV in English) at: e.ilirjani@headhunter.al if you have any technical questions related the application, please, contact Mr. Elton ILIRJANI directly on mobile +355 663000003 (Monday - Friday) until December 11, 2015.

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LeanSEM LLC – SEM digital agency start up based in California and Skopje is looking for the next SEM superstars for our office in Skopje!

Wanted: SEM/PPC specialists

LeanSEM LLC – SEM digital agency start up based in California and Skopje is looking for the next SEM superstars for our office in Skopje! We have many open positions and looking for talented individuals to join our team. Great opportunity for smart and passionate individuals to get in on the ground floor, build a career, learn cutting-edge SEM methodology, and make a great living.

We want individuals who desperately want to learn how to solve SEM/PPC marketing challenges. We are looking for go-getters who are problem solvers by nature, creative, fun, and can figure things out on their own.

You need to be someone who enjoys doing all of the above. Nothing great was done without passion or love. If you love strategy games, solving puzzles, or constantly learning new things and are driven by seeing success from your work this may be for you.  

This is not just a job, and we want to prove that to you as well. You get to work on great projects, hangout with some fine looking folks (at least we think so), and most importantly get the opportunity to grow & progress both professionally and financially. With us, you will always get what you really deserve.

Responsibilities

- Build and manage paid search campaigns using Google Adwords & Bing.

- Execute tests, collect and analyze data, identify trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in paid search campaigns.

- Create winning ads and ad campaign strategy.

- Track, report, and analyze website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns.

- Manage campaign expenses and budget, estimate monthly costs, and reconcile discrepancies.

- Optimize ad copy and landing pages for search engine marketing.

- Perform ongoing keyword expansion and optimization.

- Research and analyze paid search competitors.

Requirements

- Apply only if you know you can be the best!

- Self-starter, fast learner, and go-getter. Passionate and competitive A-players only.

- Strategic problem solvers wanted. 

- High interest in performance marketing, conversion optimization, and online customer acquisition.

- Highly analytical and organized.

- Understand the mindset of various US consumers is a plus.

- Enjoys working with data and statistics is a must.

- Advanced knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, v-lookups, macros preferred) & PowerPoint. This is not a must but will be considered a huge plus.

- Capable of handling multiple ad hoc requests.

- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience is preferred but not required.

Interested candidates to send their resume and cover letter to: dragan@leansem.com

Please make sure to include the following code as your subject line: LS Apply 12/15 

22 years from the tragedy which killed about 100 Albanians in Macedonia

There have been 22 years now of the great aerial tragedy in Macedonia, when on 22 November 1993 the four kilometers from the Ohrid airport crashed plane “JAK 42-D” Company “Avioimpeks” from Skopje. In this case the lives of 115 passengers and crew members, the great majority of whom were Albanians, writes flashnewsv.

In this tragedy remained alive only one passenger. The plane flew from Geneva to Skopje, but due to the difficult weather conditions, came to landing at the airport in Ohrid. The plane crashed near the place called the Trojan Mounting. The 1993 was a tragic year for utilities or airlines in Macedonia, because eight months earlier, in March, a plane crashed another type “Foker”, where the lives of 87 people, also mostly Albanians. So the three biggest air tragedies occurring in the world in 1993, two of them were located in Macedonia.

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The southern border wait around 1,000 migrants, in the Tabanovce no delay.

The situation on the southern border with Greece today is regular. At about 1000 migrants are not allowed entry into the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, while other refugees procedure as normal.

As informed by the Ministry of Interior, it is peaceful and in  the northern border. Reception camp was empty and no delays in the current process out.

Migrants protest at the Macedonian border

About 1,000 persons regarded as economic migrants from the Macedonian authorities in Skopje, organized a protest in the Greek-Macedonian border.

Gevgelija protests in the border area, come after Macedonian officials have begun to refuse the entry of migrants who are not from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Most of the protesters are migrants from Iran, Libya, Morocco, Somalia and Bangladesh.

Standing behind barbed wire along the border, many of the migrants have told Radio Free Europe, they have been waiting in the border area for days, in order to pass from Macedonia to the European Union.

Skopje has imposed restrictions such as Serbia and Croatia have announced that they will turn back migrants who are not from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan.