Country Risk Rating

Tensions with between the country’s government and its ethnic-Russian minority may deteriorate after an official decision to ban the use of written Russian among local administrators... 2004-08-06

Foreign Minister Rihards Piks has left the ruling coalition to accept a seat in the European parliament. However, Artis Pabriks, the replacement nominated by the prime minister, is... 2004-08-06

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has singled out political risk as one of the key constraints on Russia's creditworthiness, suggesting that as a result the country is unlikely... 2004-07-08

Former head of state Valdas Adamkus has been returned to office after his victory in a second run-off against Kazimira Prunskiene to replace impeached ex-President Rolandas Paksas.... 2004-07-08

Campaigning for October's key presidential election officially began in early July. Former prime minister Viktor Yushchenko is standing on a platform of broad democratic and economic... 2004-07-07

Ukraine's 1,600 peacekeeping troops in Iraq look set to remain in the Middle Eastern country for the time being, after opposition parties failed to secure enough votes in parliament... 2004-06-08

Finance Minister Taavi Veskimagi has declared that Estonia is aiming to apply to join ERM-2, the pre-euro exchange rate mechanism, by Q204. The Baltic state currently satisfies the... 2004-06-07

While Russia-EU relations will continue to be marred at the political level by European concerns over Moscow's democratic credentials and conduct in Chechnya, and may now also be... 2004-06-07

Aggressive legal machinations surrounding the candidacy of Rolandas Paksas, the impeached former head of state, in June presidential elections have culminated in a major blow to his... 2004-06-07

The acrimony which currently characterises diplomacy between Riga and Moscow has increased in recent weeks after the government refused to grant a visa to a senior Russian official... 2004-06-07