Country Risk Rating

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

Moldova's parliament has once again failed to elect a president, extending the political stalemate and setting up what could be the country's fourth parliamentary elections since 2009.... 2011-12-22

The Turkmenistan parliament has bestowed the title Hero of Turkmenistan to President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov at the Council of Elders on October 25. The award was given to Berdymukhammedov... 2011-12-22

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... 2011-12-22

Uzbekistan is likely to benefit greatly from increased cooperation with the US, following the latter's decision to suspend sanctions and provide the Central Asian country with military... 2011-12-22

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism visited Ulan Bator on November 7, on invitation of a Buddhist group. Beijing immediately filed an official complaint with Mongolia's... 2011-11-22

Renewed skirmishes between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along the border of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region continue to overshadow the region's political risk profile. We continue... 2011-11-22

Two Belarusians, Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov, who have been charged with planning a bomb blast on the underground system in the capital Minsk in April that left 15 people... 2011-11-15

Persisting high levels of inflation have placed our short-term political risk rating for Mongolia under the spotlight, and we note that a further downgrade to the 'social stability'... 2011-10-26

Azerbaijan's political risk profile continues to be characterised by concerns over mounting diplomatic tensions with neighbouring Armenia over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.... 2011-10-26