Media: Russia’s Media Imperialism
A revanchist Kremlin exports its own toxic brand of media management.
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A revanchist Kremlin exports its own toxic brand of media management.
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Plus, Macedonia gets a new-old government, and Czech scientists say they have a Lyme disease vaccine. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Plus, the Czechs drop their human rights qualms about business with China, and Ukraine’s president wants to liberate detained journalists. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Also, Hungarian banks face a billion-euro loss on foreign-currency loans and Romania’s first brother is jailed for alleged criminal ties. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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The Czech leader’s remarks on NATO and Russia are a source of worry and puzzlement in some quarters.
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Plus, Georgian Dream sweeps local elections and Poland’s central bank chief faces resignation calls after bad-mouthing his colleagues. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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Plus, Georgians rally against harsh drug laws and a new report details the long hours and low pay of garment workers in the region. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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The crisis to the east is severely testing cooperation in Central Europe.
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As the Obama administration rebuilds relations in Central Asia, a new survey warns that the region’s continuing descent into authoritarianism shouldn’t be forgotten.
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Leonid Yuzefovich’s latest joins the very short list of major novels on Russia’s Roaring ’90s
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With so many indicators pointed downward, and so many promises broken, Bulgaria’s youth greet this weekend’s elections with a yawn or a snicker.
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In the Bulgarian capital, election campaigning goes down nice and easy on a hot summer day.
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Twenty years ago this summer, the Baltic Way came like a giant arrow that struck the Berlin Wall from within.
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A prime minister makes an unexpected departure as some predict economic collapse and EU-accession limbo for his country.
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This study is intended to expose the evidence and the means of evidence in the civil and criminal causes having as subject matter the trademark counterfeiting in Romania. Thus, an examination of the evidence shall be carried out (notion, object, importance, burden of evidence), the means of evidence used in these cases, the method of their consideration by the courts, novelty aspects regarding the evidence produced in the criminal cases of trademark counterfeiting in Romania.
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The article approaches, from the criminal proceedings and crime’s perspective, the arrangement of the technical and scientific findings and of the examinations in case of the investigation of offences set forth in art. 1396 of Law no. 8/1996 on the copyright and related rights. The main examined aspects are represented by certain prior specifications regarding the technical and scientific findings and the examinations, the procedure of performing the technical and scientific finding and of the examination, their probative value, as well as by certain theoretical and practical aspects regarding the arrangement of the examinations in case of investigating the offences set forth in art. 1396 of Law no. 8/1996.
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Due to the differentiation between the laws of member states in the field of designs and patterns, European Parliament and Council Directive no. 98/71/CE from October 13, 1998 on legal protection of designs and patters, has implemented a protection system of designs and patters adapted to domestic market needs. Based on the Directive no. 98/71/CE, Council Regulation (EU) no. 6/2002 from December 12, 2001 on community designs and patters has been issued, which is compulsory in all its elements and which applies directly in all member states. Thus, a special legal protection has been provided meant to encourage individual creators, to bring forward innovation, the development of new products and the investments in their fabrication. To implement the provisions of the Regulation (EU) no. 6/2002, Commission Regulation (EU) no. 2245/2002 from October 21, 2002 has been adopted. All these regulations are intended to provide protection of designs and patterns, and for this purpose two forms of protection are deemed as necessary, namely a long-term one, corresponding to the design or patters not registered, and a short-term one, corresponding to the design and patters registered. In this paper we shall present in detail these forms of protection, as well as the substantive and formal conditions necessary to be fulfilled for the registration of designs and patterns. The presentation shall be founded on legal regulations mentioned above that are enforceable and binding also on the Romanian territory, a legal protection of designs and patterns been thus provided not only inland but also intra-community. The purpose of the paper is to highlight also the necessity of designs and patterns protection, a sine-qua-non condition for the development of new products and investments.
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