Country Risk Rating
Ukraine
Ukraine's legislative assembly, the Verkhovna Rada, expressed its overwhelming support on May 19 for the government to close negotiations on the pending Deep and Comprehensive Free...
2011-05-20Kazakhstan
Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov met with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on May 14 to discuss bilateral cooperation. Meanwhile, the National Bank of Kazakhstan has announced...
2011-05-19Azerbaijan
We note that regional political tensions are another cause for concern, with the 'frozen conflict' with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh recently heating up. In...
2011-05-04Georgia
Georgia's political risk profile continues to be weighed down by a challenging 'security threat' and regional environment, as a lack of political initiative towards resolving the dispute...
2011-05-04Mongolia
Mongolia's finance ministry and the Development Bank of Mongolia signed an agreement in mid-April that will see the government guarantee Development Bank debt worth MNT800bn (US$633.4mn),...
2011-05-04Russia
Russia's federal budget has improved markedly since the start of the year, with the cumulative fiscal balance rising to a RUB121.3bn surplus in the first quarter of 2011, on account...
2011-05-04Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov is set to meet with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov on May 5-6. The aim of the meeting is to discuss deepening economic and...
2011-05-03Turkmenistan
Ashgabat's energy diversification strategy is playing out well, with the country's state-owned energy company Turkmengaz recently accepting a loan to the tune of US$4.1bn from the...
2011-05-03Moldova
Moldova's interim head of state, President Marian Lupu, is scheduled to conduct his first official state visit between April 28 and 29 to neighbouring Romania since being elected to...
2011-04-28Ukraine
Ukraine's Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced that the first round of talks between Ukraine and Turkey towards establishing a visa-free travel regime between the two countries commenced...
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