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Vol. 3
#3 (September 1998)
Environment: Policy briefs
- Russia weighs in for emissions trading
- Hungary gets new environment minister
- Czech elections bring new government, environment minister
- EU presses applicants on environment; countries asses costs.
- Romania moves to cut auto emissions, phase out lead
- Hungary calculates costs of improving environment for EU
- Bulgarian officials empowered to shut polluting enterprises
- Bulgaria clarifies environmental liability
Environment: Industry news
- Bulgarian copper smelter to receive badly needed cleanup
- Fogaz's hazardous waste dilemma in Hungary
- Hungarian company issued permit to burn tires
- Hungary's NABI to produce low emisssion buses for US
- Czech refrigerator liquidator has no funds to continue
Environment: Bulletin
- Ukraine releases data on air and water pollution
- Moscow mayor honored for environmental progress
- Siberian chemical plant dumps mercury, harms populace
- Prague incinerator to be on-line soon, but under criticism
- Hungarian car fleet aging, environmentally unsound
Health: Policy briefs
- Ukraine sets fees for drug registration
- New Hungarian government names minister, curtails health agency
- Bulgarian parliament passes health insurance law
- Romania: Health minister resigns, pay hike passes
- New Czech health minister, program
- Bulgaria plans for health care privatization
- New Romanian health minister named; delays cause confusion
- Ukraine budget cuts hit health care
Health: Industry news
- Gedeon Richter goes on buying spree in eastern Europe
- Akrikhin and Bristol-Myers Squibb to produce heart drugs in Russia
- Bulgaria begins privatization of pharmaceuticals anew
- Moscow pharmaceutical company opens new plant
- Romanian pharmaceutical factory on right track
- Merck signs agreement with Hungarian drugmaker Egis
Health: Bulletin
- Incidence of TB grows in Kazakstan
- Central and east Europe hot for Viagra
- Drug resistant TG spreads in Russian prisons
#2 (March/April 1998)
- The Cost of Eating Poorly: Agriculture and the environment in Russia -- Part 2 by Charles Sauer
- Russia in Major Emissions Project: Japan and Russia to agree on greehouse gas reduction measures by Steven Norton
- Health and Taxes: Polish government hammers out health funding compromise
Environment: Policy developments
- Bulgaria to phase out leaded gas, certify autos
- New water pollution, chemical regulation bills in Czech Republic
- Hungarians, Czechs weigh cost of meeting EU enviro standards
- Poland signs debt-for-environment swap with Italy
- Controversy over the Caspian Sea
Environment: Industry news
- Nuclear waste recycling plant almost finished in Russian Far East
- Synthesia’s environmental operations
- Latvian landfill to be upgraded, reduce toxic runoff to Baltic
Environment: Bulletin
- Budapest water threatened by cyanide dump
- Some Siberians still threatened by radiation
Health: Policy briefs
- Subsidies for contraceptives slashed in Poland
- Russian government group says foreign takeovers threaten drug industry
- ILO report shows shrinking maternity benefits
- Romania gets new health minister, faces mounting problems
Health: Industry news
- ICN expands in Russia, east Europe
- Grindex plans holding company, sees controversy
- Farmak to sell pharmaceuticals in U.S.
- Drug supermarkets coming to Moscow
Health: Bulletin
- Problem of drug abuse growing in Russia
- Bulgaria becoming popular for clinical drug tests
- Moscow to require condom dispensers
#1 (January/February 1998)
- Swimming Upstream: A Case Study in Russian environmental management -- Part 1 by Charles Sauer
- Hot Summer Ahead: Romanian health sector strikes by Mona Dirtu
Environment: Policy developments
- Russia and Japan discuss greenhouse gas reductions
- Russian environmentalists win court victory
- Estonia approves new air pollution law
Environment: Industry news
- Electrolux opens Hungary plant to dismantle refrigerators
- Czech property fund underwrites remediation efforts
Environment: Bulletin
- Auto numbers worsen Prague air pollution and road congestion
- Russian agencies worry about Caspian oil exploration
Health: Policy briefs
- Poland to abolish regulated drug prices
- New Czech health minister faced with problems
Health: Industry news
- Hungary to upgrade x-ray equipment
- Glaxo Wellcome to buy major Polish drug maker
- US-Belarusian JV to manufacture ambulances
- Medicor ends 1997 with major Brazilian deal
Health: Bulletin
- Bulgarian to participate in EU’s AIDS, cancer programs
- Hospital information systems in Hungary
- Efforts to fight drug abuse still languish in Belarus
Vol. 2
#6 (November/December 1997)
- Czech Health Reform Stalls: Collapse of governing coalition leaves legislation in doubt by Steven Norton
- Polish Doctors Get Concessions: Anesthesiologists’ union protests, pressures new government
Environment: Policy developments
- EU nations to accept Romanian car inspection certificates
- U.S.-Kazak agreements include environment and nuclear energy
- Swiss extend environmental aid to Hungary
- Russian military to step up environmental clean-up
- Russia adopts energy conservation program
- U.S. to help Russia disassemble chemicals weapons enterprise
- Fuel taxes in Moscow to fund ecology programs
- Canadian grant to aid Ukraine’s Dnepr River
- Bulgaria to return forest land to former owners
- Wolf hunting to be banned in Poland
- Poland, Bulgaria sign environmental cooperation agreement
Environment: Industry news
- CEZ program to reduce emissions at coal plants
- German-Ukrainian JV to produce enviro-friendly fertilizer
- CFCs being recycled in Czech Republic at very low rate
- Slovak paper firm employs U.S. technology to reduce emissions
- Polish copper smelter cleans up its act
- Autosan of Poland dramatically reduces emissions
- St. Petersburg opens new sewage sediment incinerator
Environment: Bulletin
- Moscow city fights air pollution that is among worst in Russia
- Poland’s air quality improving, but still among worst in Europe
- Cars are major environmental problem in Poland
- Ukraine’s illegal waste dumps may be polluting water
- Bulgaria warns of environmental hazards of Black Sea pipeline
Health: Policy briefs
- Bulgaria proposes health-care reform, gets aid
- Moscow city pulls plug on safe sex campaign
Health: Industry news
- Hungary’s Richter reports growth led by exports to CIS
- Abbott buys into Hungarian Biorex
- French, Hungarian firms buy Polish drug company
Health: Bulletin
- Bulgarian government to offer free contrceptives
- AIDS virus remains in Ukraine’s blood supply
#5 (September/October 1997)
Environment: Policy developments
- Bulgaria making inroads in enviro protection
- Ten nations sign environmental pact
- Sweden in deal to support Poland's EcoFund
- Hungary and Ukraine renew border water agreement
Environment: Industry news
- Azeri inventory of ozone-depleting substances completed
- Union Miniere to boost enviro standards at Bulgarian copper plant
- Rolls-Royce to modernize Polish power plant
- EEC licenses precipitator technology to Russian engineering firm
- ERT to monitor environment for oil consortium
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium to pay for enviro protection
- Project to improve water quality in Lake Balaton
- World Bank funds Georgian Black Sea program
- DuPont to produce at old Russian chemical weapons plant
Environment: Bulletin
- Ukrainian oil spill results from siphoning attempt
- Gold-mine spoil pollutes Siberian rivers
- USFWS establishes fund for polar bear research
- Pesticide residue found in drinking water in Tajikistan
Health: Industry news
- Poland pharmaceuticals stakes bought up
- RPR obtains approval to market Granocyte in CEE
- NeXstar products ok'd by Russian health ministry
- Philip Morris opens cigarette factory in Lithuania
Health: Problems and policy
- New cigarette tax in Romania
- Soros to donate $500 million to Russia for health care and more
- Tuberculosis spreading in Russia
#4 (July-August 1997)
- Poland’s Waste Management Law by Lynda Maillet
- New Treatment Plants for Poland
- Poland’s New Water Law
- Macedonia law on environmental protection
- Czech waste law, initially blocked by Senate, finally approved
- Conservation: Russian conservation program and Exxon target funds for tiger preservation
Environment: Policy developments
- TVX Gold leaps one hurdle, but faces another
- New Romania bodies address sustainability
- Bulgarian draft law gives tax incentives to recyclers
- Efficiency could save Poland billions - report
- Azerbaijan, World Bank prepare enviro plan
Environment: Industry news
- Danes help Czech city build gas-powered plants
- Bulgarian firms to cut use of ozone-depleting substances
- Lublin, Poland plant to clean up its act
- Russia’s NKNK to reduce product sulfur content
- Romania receives loan for water systems
- Modernized Polish refinery reduces emissions
- Texaco clears hurdles to gain Polish methane concession
- Croatia gets financing for waste water systems
- Undersea electric cable to link Sweden, Poland
- Russia nuclear waste facility almost complete
Health: Policy briefs
- Poland bans asbestos, finally
- Product expiration dates required in Russia
Health: Industry news
- Hungarian drug firm expanding into Russia
- RiboGene product to be marketed in east Europe
- Russia buys ventilators from Bird
Health: Bulletin
- Moscow cholera warning, sewage leaks blamed
- Typhoid epidemic in Dagestan
- Drinking water analyzed in Tajikistan
#3 (May-June 1997)
Environment: Policy developments
- Hungarian Enviro Clean-Up Program begun
- Hazardous dumps mapped in Kazakstan
- Belarus receives grant to phase out CFCs
- New Russian law to protect Lake Baikal
- Russian town rejects nuclear waste plant
- Kazaks enforcing ban on trade in endangered species
Environment: Industry briefs
- Pollution-reducing gas turbine in operation in Russia
- Polish copper company reduces emissions
- Czech fund to encourage energy savings
- Billions needed to make Russian heating efficient
- Smuggled goods truly "hot"
Health: Policy News
- Soros gives $3 million for medical labs in Moscow
- Medical workers strike in Serbia
- Infant mortality down in Russia
- Hungarian anti-smoking bill close to enactment
- Ekaterinburg City Council OKs paid medical services
- Hungary to supplement 1997 health budget
Health: Industry briefs
- Bristol-Myers to package heart drugs in Russia
- Bristol-Myers research center in Czech Republic
- Searle to build drug plant in Russia
- Russia buys U.S. defibrillators
- Russian company to produce Vitamin C
- Japanese firm boosts drug sales in Russia
- Philips x-ray machines made by Russian firms
- Gufic joint venture opens drug plant in Uzbekistan
- Moscow to increase number of pharmacies
#2 (March-April 1997)
Environment: Policy developments
- Hungary raises fines for environmental damage
- Seven Russian plants to halt CFC production
- Poland gets grant to phase out CFCs
- New vehicle tax in Romania
- Belarus restricts export of wood
Environment: Monitor
- Toxic leak at Russian nuclear plant
- Sturgeon face multiple dangers in Russia
- Report: Dioxin threatens 75% of Russia
Environment: Industry briefs
- A.D. Little to help Russia clean chemical industry
- Czech company awarded ISO 14001 certification
- Polish power plant to get new boilers
- Dresser in Russian JV to produce gas meters
- Danes to build treatment plant in Wroclaw
- Polish power plant gets loan to cut emissions
- Westinghouse to aid safety at Chernobyl’
- Baku water supply to get improvement
- Zelenograd to improve heating system
Health: Bulletin
- Medical strikes break out across Russia
- Tuberculosis a growing threat in Russia
- Cholera expected to rise in Russia
Health: Policy news
- Hungarian health insurance scandal
- Sverdlovsk government to control drug supplies
- Uzbek incentives for pharmaceuticals
Health: Industry briefs
- Russian firm to make insulin under license
- GE subsidiary in JV for ultra sound scanners
- Budapest's pharmacies privatized
- American hospital for Moscow
#1 (January-February 1997)
- Czechs Struggle over Health Care: Czech National Health Care System Faces Financial Problems by Kate Schecter
Environment: Policy developments
- Czech environmental legislation beefed up
- New Czech waste law enacted
- Czech parliament ratifies CITES
- Moscow to build recycling facilities
- Asbestos ban delayed in Poland
- Pollution prevention not advancing in Poland
- Yakutia signs accord with WWF
- New Uzbek air pollution law passed
Environment: Bulletin
- High air pollution levels in Bohemia
- Air and water pollution up in Russia
- Amur leopard faces extinction in Russia
- Uzbek rivers seriously polluted
Environment: Industry briefs
- Chemopetrol invests in the environment
- Nalco Fuel Tech wins contracts in C. Europe
- Thermo Master waste plant in Poland
- ConEco to clean up refinery sludge in Romania
- New Russian rail line faces opposition
Health: Problems and policy
- Polish parliament passes health care reform bill
- Typhoid outbreak spreading in Tajikistan
- Russian population fell sharply in 1996
- Box: What keeps me young? Vodka, of course!
Health Notes
- AIDS in the East European Region
Health: Industry briefs
- Hungary’s Richter reports higher profits
- Kazak drug company gets boost from Irish
Vol. 1
No. 2 (November-December 1996)
- Polish Doctors on Strike: Union Strikes for More Funding and Insurance Reform by Kate Schecter
- Costs of Neglect Near the Aral Sea: Kazakstan Gets IBRD Loan for Pilot Water Quality Project by Lynda Maillet
Environment: Policy developments
- Prague recycling plan set to begin
- Environmental police unit in Moscow
- New Hungarian decree on hazardous waste
- Czech town refuses gold mine offer
- Lawsuits rely on Russian eco laws
- Good intentions smog Prague suburbs
- Poland’s plans for super-highways cause concern
Environment: Bulletin
- Illegal hunting in Kazakstan
- Poland cracks down on illegal imports of waste
- Illegal hazardous waste shipment stuck in Hungary
- More hazardous waste sitting in Estonia port
- Russian forests in decline
Environment: Industry briefs
- New air monitoring lab for St. Petersburg
- American company helps clean up refinery sludge
- EBRD loan to Croatia to improve water supply
- Texas company to sell water treatment system
- Scandinavians help fund Russian waste processing
Health: Problems and policy
- Hungarian health care policy crisis
- Hepatitis epidemic in Siberia
- Polish President signs liberalized abortion law
- American company may take stake in Polish HMO
No. 1 (September-October 1996)
Environment: Policy developments:
- European environmental treaty comes into force
- Poland to reduce SO2 emissions from power plants
- State environmental evaluations required in Irkutsk Oblast
- Bulgaria sets up National Environment Trust Fun
Health: Problems and policy
- Hepatitis outbreak in Eastern Russia
- New Russian health minister raises questions
- Contaminated meat spreads anthrax
- Battling mosquitoes in Bucharest
Nuclear power & waste
- Russia and Norway agree to nuclear waste program
- All four reactors at Mochovce in Slovakia to be completed
Industry briefs
- One Danish company finds opportunities
- Slovak power plant to lower toxic emissions
- Heat-flow meters to be installed in Bulgaria
- Bayer in Russian research agreements
- Italian medical equipment for Uzbekistan
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