Essential CIS Politics: May 2019

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - Report 20 May 2019 by Alex Teddy and Alexei Panin

* A very mixed month for Russia with short-term good news on oil prices and other sectors of the economy. National projects and economic growth continue to move at a snail’s pace.

* The situation in Venezuela and Libya is very uncertain for Russia with Russia gambling heavily on its favored leader in both cases.

* Ukraine’s incoming President Zelenskiy dissolves parliament; reform remains to be seen.

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