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Kazakhstan
On January 23 - a week after Kazakhstan's January 15 parliamentary elections - the authorities raided the offices and homes of opposition party Alga officials, which was banned from...
2012-01-27Mongolia
International mining majors and the foreign investment community in Mongolia will keep a close eye on political developments in the run-up to the parliamentary election in June. With...
2012-01-27Armenia
Increasingly aggressive rhetoric from Azerbaijan suggests that risks of a military confrontation with Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region are rising. With the country...
2012-01-26Belarus
Following widespread arrests in mid-2011, Belarusian police forces arrested a small number of individuals in late December who were staging a candle-lit protest to mark the one-year...
2012-01-26Russia
Renewed eurozone volatility, especially concerning a default by a sovereign in the absence of more comprehensive fiscal integration measures and higher bailout funds will have significant...
2012-01-26Kyrgyzstan
Around 50 protestors gathered outside the Kyrgyz government building in Bishkek demanding full implementation of an anti-gambling law. Many casinos still operate despite the law's enactment...
2012-01-24Georgia
The disputed presidential election in late November has created a political atmosphere of chaos in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, after the Kremlin-backed candidate and former...
2012-01-03Azerbaijan
A court has sentenced a journalist from an independent newspaper in Azerbaijan to three years of jail, while the paper's editor-in-chief may potentially face 12 years imprisonment on...
2012-01-03
