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Turkmenistan / Political Risk
Elections for Turkmenistan’s legislative body, the National Assembly or Mejlis, are due to be held in December 2013, but we do not anticipate any alteration to the current makeup of the body. The assembly currently has 125 members, all from President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's Democratic Party of Turkmenistan. Another party, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs...
2013-05-01Georgia / Political Risk
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili reiterated his view that Georgia's primary foreign policy aim should be normalising ties with Russia, whilst also moving toward NATO and...
2013-05-01Azerbaijan / Economy
BMI View: Azerbaijan’s state budget recorded a surplus of 0.3% of GDP in 2012, with our forecast for this surplus to narrow marginally in 2013, to 0.2% of GDP as year-on-year...
2013-05-01Country Risk Rating
Turkmenistan
Elections for Turkmenistan’s legislative body, the National Assembly or Mejlis, are due to be held in December 2013, but we do not anticipate any alteration to the current...
2013-05-01Georgia
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili reiterated his view that Georgia's primary foreign policy aim should be normalising ties with Russia, whilst also moving toward NATO and...
2013-05-01Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadyarov made a trip to Israel in April 2013, a first for any Azeri foreign minister. Mamadyarov met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
2013-05-01Russia
Relations between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appear to have deteriorated significantly over the past month, with Putin's public criticism of Medvedev...
2013-05-01Azerbaijan
BMI View: Azerbaijan’s state budget recorded a surplus of 0.3% of GDP in 2012, with our forecast for this surplus to narrow marginally in 2013, to 0.2% of GDP as year-on-year...
2013-05-01Russia
BMI View: Consumer price inflation dropped from 7.3% y-o-y in February to 7.0% in March, in line with our view that inflation will fall over the next few months. The main reason for...
2013-05-01Russia
BMI View: We are revising down our 2013 real GDP forecast for Russia to 2.6% from 3.6% previously, on the back of signals that President Vladimir Putin is willing to let headline growth...
2013-05-01Georgia
BMI View: Georgian real GDP growth came in at 6.4% in 2012, below our previous forecast of 7.5%. This is largely due to an unexpectedly fast slowdown in the growth of gross fixed capital...
2013-05-01Georgia
BMI View: Although no candidates have been selected at the time of writing we anticipate that the party of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will comfortably win October's presidential...
2013-04-30Turkmenistan
BMI View: The US and UN have both recently criticised the Turkmen government for its apparent lack of action in ensuring personal freedoms and protecting human rights. The regime has...
2013-04-30Moldova
BMI View: The crisis that has gripped the tri-partite coalition has raised the possibility of early elections at a crucial time for Moldova's EU integration programme. While a new party...
2013-02-25Uzbekistan
On February 20, Uzbek President Islam Karimov welcomed a delegation of US Congressmen led by Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman of the Europe and Eurasia subcommittee. The delegation covered...
2013-02-22
