Political Risk

After the wide-ranging allegations of high-profile graft that culminated in September’s government crisis, President Yushchenko has announced an anti-corruption legislative programme.

Despite Croatia attracting lots of positive comments from key European organisations, the war crimes fugitive, Ante Gotovina, is likely to impede the path to Brussels until he is... 2005-11-30

On the eve of presidential elections in Kazakhstan, incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev is poised to win a third term comfortably.

Undemocratic, corrupt, unfree: blunt words which might be considered appropriate in a summary of domestic politics in Azerbaijan in the post-Soviet era. However, this could be about... 2005-11-01

The European Union has placed an arms embargo and visa bans on Uzbekistan, after the violent suppression of anti-government protests in Andizhan in May. Up to 1000 people were killed... 2005-10-31

The opposition parties in Belarus have stepped up efforts to form a united front in next year's presidential elections, democratically electing Alyaksandr Milinkevich as the challenger... 2005-10-31

We expect the new government to inject a welcome note of stability into policymaking in its role as caretaker leading up to March's parliamentary election. In general terms, new premier... 2005-10-07

Tajikistan appears to be turning back east after co-operation with the US during the 2001 anti-Taliban campaign in Afghanistan, denying the future possibility of a US base in the... 2005-10-03

The latest draft of amendments to the country's constitution, which concedes some of the President's executive powers to parliament and judiciary legislators, has won approval in... 2005-10-03

The date approved by parliament for the presidential elections in Kazakhstan - 4 December 2005 - ended the speculation amid opposition parties and political analysts that an early... 2005-10-03