Essential CIS Politics: October 2020
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS
- Report
23 Oct 2020
by Alex Teddy and Alexei Panin
* Russia: The economy is growing slowly but several worries remain.
* Local semi-lockdowns in Russia have slowed the resurgence of the pandemic but there is no sense that full lockdown will be reintroduced.
* Azerbaijan and Armenia fought for two weeks, and at least 400 people were killed. There is a ceasefire but peace is far from secure.
* In Belarus the president seems to have a firmer grip than before and has released a few political prisoners but protests are ongoing.
* In Kyrgyzstan rigged elections led to mass protests and demonstrators' freeing ex-president Atambayev from jail.
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