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«It is 21h30 Coordinated Universal Time on the 4th of January 2009, and 04h30 Capitals Standard Time on the 5th of January 2009. You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • Earlier today, United Secular Movements of Dovakhan (Tzâbîks Lâîk Fûjövk Dövâkhângöp) issued a memorandum of thanks to its corporate sponsors and individual donors for helping the national coalition of charities meet its fundraising goals set by its Winter of Light Campaign. The efforts bring the organisation’s annual tab thus far to eight billion Lirot ($16 million USD), which it hopes to increase to ten billion Lirot ($20 million USD) by the end of March 2008 in the Gregorian Calendar or by the end of 5768 in the Republican Calendar.

  • Khagan-Chancellor Ânâtöl Êfösêbâd will board the first morning train today to return to work in the capital after an extended two-week break for the Solstice celebrations. The Khagan-Chancellor is expected to deliver an address before the Dovakhanese Cama congratulating the nations on the Gregorian Calendar for the start of their new year and announcing an effort by his government towards further diplomatic rapprochement. In his address the Khagan-Chancellor is also expected to outline further economic liberalizations to come in the Cama’s spring term and on through the Dovakhanese New Year.

More specifically, the Khagan-Chancellor and his New Democratic Alliance party hope to study the privatization of such state-owned enterprises as Dövôpöjûpîk, the state pharmaceutical company, and DâbösfêtDövâkhân, the public television authority. Also on the agenda is a scheduled review of family planning measures promoted by the Department of Health’s Population Agency.

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«It is 21h30 Coordinated Universal Time on the 7th of March 2009, and 04h30 Capitals Standard Time on the 8th of March 2009. You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • Preparations are beginning in the capital and across the country for the Dovakhanese New Year. The Khagan-Chancellor visited the National Observatory in the capital greenbelt yesterday where astronomers at the Agency for Weights and Measures are preparing to observe the vernal equinox that will ring in Year 5770 of the Counting.

  • The Special Cama Commission on the South Bai Lungese Question will convene today to discuss the Republic-Khanates’ continuing role in that country. The Dovakhanese Military has been involved in South Bai Lung since the overthrow of the Communist and Nationalist regimes on the island nation by Dannistrian and Dovakhanese Non-Aligned forces. The commission has called together all stakeholders in the Dovakhanese occupation zone, including international development agencies, the Dovakhanese-led provisional government, and the partners in the East Pacific Non-Aligned Movement (EP-NAM).

  • Also on the Cama’s agenda today will be a plenary session to discuss the fate of several Dovakhanese national holdings. Department of Health officials are expected to discourage the privatization of the state pharmaceutical company, Dövôpöjûpîk, whereas the public television privatization will most likely garner multi-partisan support. The recent nationalization of failed Dovakhanese international airlines will also be on the agenda.

  • In cultural news today marks the 70th anniversary of one of Dovakhan’s best loved cartoon series. Ânâtölîk or “Little Anatol” was first drawn in 1939 by Êrvês Vâldöv. Since then, millions of children and children at heart have bought the 25 different albums that have been produced. At its peak the series has a readership of over 20 million in a country of only 50 million at the time. The cartoon was known for its topicality in portraying current events through the allegory of school children, but also for its fun-loving jokes and running gags.

Khagan-Chancellor Ânâtöl Êfösêbâd, who says in all seriousness that the cartoon may be his namesake, will visit the tomb of Vâldöv in Sêlândê in the next week as well as rededicate the recently-opened Ânâtölîk museum at the artist’s home in that city.

  • Also in cultural developments, the International Women’s Day parade will occur tomorrow in Tschmuschaboumtopolis, followed by the annual convention hosted by the Association of Republican Women. The keynote speaker is Dâgmâr Sôlân, the current managing director of the Dêjârdînz Credit Union Association, and the first woman to hold that position. Interestingly, this is the first time a member of the private sector will speak at the convention.

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«It is 21h30 Coordinated Universal Time on the 15th of December 2010, and 04h30 Dovakhanese Standard Time on the 16th of December 2009. You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • The Dovakhanese economy officially entered into recession as the panic over Packilvania’s strong showing in Tasselvalta overtook the expansionary effect of the resulting military buildup. Threats of runs on banking institutions across the country have lead the Khagan-Chancellor to call two separate three-day bank holidays in the last three months. Credit markets are essentially frozen and the Khanates Securities Exchange continues its months-long free fall. There are fears that unemployment has already crept above ten percent. Opinion polls have turned against the Khagan-Chancellor, who is viewed as increasingly impotent in national security in view of the Tokan, Bai Lung, and Dannistrian crises. Khagan-Chancellor Efosebad is expected to deliver an address to the nation this evening.

  • It was a dramatic scene at Alv’a On International Airport as Dovakhanese forces evacuated Airport Island. The emerging situation on the Packilvania-Dovakhan border prompted the Khangan-Chancellor to order most active-duty Dovakhanese servicemen home to prepare to defend the Dovakhanese homeland. Thousands of ethnic Dovakhanese and pro-Dovakhanese Tokans took refuge on Airport Island after the Tokan regiment helped the Marxist Action Committee of Greater Dannistra take over Alv’a-On and surrounding islands. Their fate hangs in the balance, along with that of around a million ethnic Dovakhanese in Tokana, so called “Marianks” as a vigorously nationalist regime takes hold in the former tropical territory.

  • The President of the Executive Yuan of the South Bai Lung Free State, Wen Jiabao, has added his voice to the calls for Dovakhanese withdrawal from South Bai Lung. Around 900 Dovakhanese combat advisors are stationed on Mao Island to support the South Bai Lung National Defence and Police Forces. This was a drawdown from the full-scale occupation force that supported the occupying Dovakhanese Government of South Bai Lung in the wake of the Bai Lung-Dannistaan War. Pressure has been increasing on the President since the Legislative Yuan drafted a strongly-worded resolution calling for withdrawal. Mr. Wen is not seeking reelection, but his left-wing Chongsheng Farmer-Labour coalition faces a key test in the upcoming legislative elections.

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«It is 21h30 Coordinated Universal Time on the 10th of October 2011, and 04h30 Dovakhanese Standard Time on the 11th of October 2011. You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from http://theeastpacific.com/index.php?showtopic=4949&st=0:

  • President Wen Jiabao of the South Bai Lung Free State has declared a state of emergency and asked the support of the 600 Dovakhanese combat advisors remaining in the South Bai Lung Free State to secure the internal border between the free state and the Free Republic of Bai Lung, which has fallen to a Nationalist coup. The evolving political crisis in the north has temporarily silenced South Bai Lungese http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/The_East_Pacific/index.php?showtopic=8137&st=0&#entry5546886. However, Mr. Wen’s opposition in the Legislative Yuan, the Nationalist-sympathizing People’s Industrial Party, will have a vote on the state of emergency in 30 days. (OoC: More http://theeastpacific.com/index.php?showtopic=6405)

  • Consumer confidence continued to flatline last month, according to the Office of Statistics and Economic Studies. Without significant stimulus, government economists warn, the country will not be able to fully recover from the credit crunch brought on last winter by Pax aggressions in Tasselvalta. Meanwhile, questions of national security and overseas military commitments have severely divided the ruling New Democratic Alliance, making a speedy political consensus on domestic issues increasingly unlikely. Economic issues are expected to weigh heavily on voters’ minds as they decide whether to return the Khagan-Chancellor’s party to power in the upcoming legislative elections.

  • Director of Diplomacy Evras Alias returned from Alv’a-On, Tokana, Thursday evening with an agreement to pull Dovakhanese troops out of the archipelago in exchange for assurances from the Marxist government that they would protect the human rights of indigenous ethnic Dovakhanese population. The Marxist Action Committee, which swept the Tokan presidency and the lower house of the Tokan legislature, has been pushing to dissolve the old constitution and carry out their left-wing program. Meanwhile, Dovakhanese troops remain stationed on Airport Island, ostensibly to protect the Mariank minority in Tokana.

Populist Party Leader Avrit Aliat scalded the New Democratic Alliance government for the move on Friday. He contended that, if the government weren’t so committed to foreign adventures in Dannistaan and Bai Lung, it would have had the military power to choke off the http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/The_East_Pacific/index.php?showtopic=8137&st=0&#entry5547091 that put the Marxists into power.

  • Aliat’s deputy, Silas Arad, also provoked controversy later that day when he demanded the closing of the camp for Airbusian refugees in southern Mariya khanate. Refugees, he said, were a drain on the economy and representative of what he saw as the “flawed, other-regarding” policy of the ruling party. The 32-year old legislator from Kazakhov, who was first elected in the last Cama elections, is a rising star in the Populist Party that is positioning himself to take the party leadership reins from the aging Aliat in the next few years.

Arad’s remarks elicited strong rebukes from the Social-Democratic and Green wings of the New Democratic and from the Evolutionary Communist Party. However, Liberal-Democratic Deputy Leader Kevas Adamov did not make remarks on behalf of the NDA’s right wing, forcing LDP Leader and Cama Speaker Juliet Drapo to come down from the speaker’s dais and make a statement.

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«It is 21h30 Coordinated Universal Time and 04h30 Dovakhanese Standard Time. You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • Populist Party Leader Avrit Aliat has died of a sudden heart attack according to a family spokesman. His wife discovered him last night collapsed at his home in the Old Port of Tschmuschaboumtopolis. Green Crescent medics arrived on the scene, but were unable to resuscitate the former mayor and longstanding Cama deputy.

Avrit Dagmara Aliat was born 23 January 1931 in Tschmuschaboumtopolis to Kieran Aliat, a prominent grocer, and his wife Dagmar Vadaz. The family was heavily involved in the right-wing of the republican movement, where Aliat developed his political bona fides organizing the entrepreneurial classes. Aliat began his studies during the Restoration at the Imperial Institute of Civil Service (now the Republican Institute of Political Science) alongside future Khagan-Chancellor Jan Drapo. He was one of Maximiliani Rikeli’s “blue-shirt boys” who protested for the emperor to give way to a republican government.

After graduating in 1953, Aliat went to work as a deputy director at the Department of Commerce under the Second Republic. In 1960, he was elected to the Cama as a Popular Republican. After losing he seat in the 1968 revolution, Aliat went to work as a cadre at a prominent food processing company and became active in municipal politics.

In 1971, Aliat was elected to the Tschmusch legislature on an anti-autogestion Liberal ticket. He was elected mayor of Tschmuschaboumtopolis in 1975, becoming the only right-wing mayor of a major city in Dovkahan at the time. Under his thirty-year tenure, Aliat galvanized the city against some of the most radical Popular Front reforms, namely the worker takeover of key industries, and invested in education and public works.

In 1995, Aliat returned to national politics as Liberal leader in the Cama. He steered the party to greater electoral heights and after rebranding it as the Populist Party, brought the right-wing its biggest victory since the Second Republic.

Aliat will leave a legacy of loyal opposition for his successor, deputy leader Silas Arad. The party has been making significant gains against the center-left Liberal Democratic-led alliance as the economy falters and the outward-looking foreign policy loses the confidence of the electorate.

The Khagan-Chancellor has expressed his condolences and granted Aliat a state funeral at the Cama.

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«You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • As of this evening, the 900 Dovakhanese military advisors previously stationed in South Bai Lung have returned home. Khagan-Chancellor Anatol Efosebad met the military personnel of the Bai Lung Assistance Command at Republican District Military Airport to congratulate them on the territory’s successful reversion to Bai Lung.

However, reports of an embassy bombing in Pyongjing dampened the celebratory mood. Efosebad’s government has come under serious fire from opposition groups for its foreign policy blunders and the country’s anemic economic growth.

  • Newly-anointed Populist Party Leader Silas Arad led a massive demonstration in the capital to protest the embassy attacks in Bai Lung and the government’s “expensive and ineffective” foreign policy. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand an end to the open asylum policy and the recovery of Dovakhanese assets seized in the Tokan uprising.

The protests doubled as an election rally for the Populist Party and the New Democratic Alliance are polling neck-and-neck at 47 percent for the upcoming legislative elections. Among New Democrats, the Liberal Democrats have 36 percent; the Greens, 10 percent; the Social Democrats, 3 percent. Communists complete the spread with 6 percent.

  • Marianks and Council of Elders walked out of Tokan constitutional negotiations to protest the Marxist proposals to entrench the “socialist” character of the new state, disenfranchise traditional elders, and nationalize Dovakhanese property.

Pavel-Dovaka Krukband of the Mariank National Party accused No’ra-De’we Li’li’o’alv’a and the Marxist Action Committee of “ethnic cleansing” and lead a loud rendition of the Mariank anthem as their delegation left the Presidential Palace in Alv’a-On.

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«You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • It’s election night in Dovakhan and the preliminary returns suggest big gains for the Populist Party. Running on a right-wing nationalist platform, the Populists captured constituencies from all the major opposition parties.

The once-mighty Social Democratic Party continued its decline this election. The SDP had hoped to ensure its long-term survival by clinging to an alliance with the Liberal Democrats. However, the New Democrats’ unpopular refugee and foreign policies along with an anemic economy have turned the electorate against the ruling coalition.

The Greens, meanwhile, escaped major carnage by running on an anti-asylum plank and disaffiliating from the New Democratic Alliance. Communists suffered among their traditional agricultural base in Agripia and among mineworkers in Zhovia because of their support for the Tokan uprising.

In the end, Agripia, Islmer, and the Republican District of Dovakhia were the only jurisdictions that preserved left-wing majorities.

Liberal-Democratic Khagan Chancellor Anatol Efosebad downplayed the results as a “temporary setback” for his government. Populist Leader Silas Arad, on the other hand, is calling tonight’s results “the harbinger of a new Dovakhanese revolution.”

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  1. POPULIST PARTY: 310 seats (55% / +94 seats)

  2. NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: 172 seats (31% / -64 seats)

  • Liberal-Democratic Party: 162 seats (29% / -56 seats)
  • Social-Democratic Party: 10 seats (2% / -8 seats)

  1. GREEN PARTY: 48 seats (9% / -8 seats)

  2. EVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY: 32 seats (5% / -22 seats)

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AGRIPIA (66 seats)
-Populist Party (24 seats)
-Evolutionary Communist (23 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (9 seats)

ALTEA (65 seats)
-Populist Party (38 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (17 seats)
-Green Party (10 seats)

APOLISTA ISLAND (9 seats)
-Populist Party (5 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (4 seats)

BOVIA (73 seats)
-Populist Party (45 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (21 seats)
-Green Party (7 seats)

DOVAKHIA, REP. DISTRICT OF (5 seats)
-Social-Democratic Party (3 seats)
-Green Party (2 seats)

ISLMER (94 seats)
-Populist Party (42 seats)
-Liberal Democratic Party (35 seats)
-Green Party (13 seats)
-Social Democratic Party (4 seats)
-Evolutionary Community Party (1 seat)

KAZAKHOV (46 seats)
-Populist Party (34 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (12 seats)

MARIYA (47 seats)
-Populist Party (33 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (14 seats)

TSCHMUSCH (129 seats)
-Populist Party (75 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (41 seats)
-Green Party (19 seats)
-Social-Democratic Party (3 seats)
-Evolutionary Communist Party (1 seat)

ZHOVIA (28 seats)
-Populist Party (14 seats)
-Liberal-Democratic Party (7 seats)
-Evolutionary Communist Party (7 seats)

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«You’re listening to FûbâDöv International on shortwave, broadcasting worldwide from over 50 global repeaters. Now for the news from Dovakhan:

  • Making good on their campaign promise, the Populist-controlled Cama will revoke the blanket refugee status for all Airbusians, Bai Lungese, and Dannistrians living in Dovakhan under the Refugee Act of 2006. After six months, these persons will be considered illegal sojourners if they do not obtain another visa type.

Furthermore, the Cama voted to remove the path to citizenship for refugees and to decrease the duration of an executive order granting refugee status from six months to one month. This move comes just as many refugees are coming to the end of the five-year waiting period to apply for citizenship outlined in previous legislation.

Cama Speaker Silas Arad claimed that the initiative would “stem the tide of refugees that are burdening our social services and taxing an already fragile economic system.” Representatives of the Airbusian Refugees Fraternal and Mutual Aid Society, meanwhile, claim that Arad’s legislation is “heartless” and “borderline racist.”

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