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Some senators are raising questions about the excesses of funds contained in the PEC. There may be adjustments to the text in order to guarantee a higher payment of court orders. Depending on the change, the entire proposal may not have to be returned for analysis in the House. A bill pending in ...

Russia is back as a twin-surplus economy in 2021

RUSSIA ECONOMICS · In Brief · 12 Nov 2021

The Finance Ministry reported that in 10M21 federal budget revenues exceeded the formally approved annual budget plan by 8.9%. Oil-and-gas revenues exceeded the annual plan by 21.8%, while the non-oil-and-gas revenues were higher than the annual target by 2.8%. Total revenues reached R20.4 trln w...

Bloomberg reports potential Russian invasion in Ukraine: what’s going on?

UKRAINE · In Brief · 12 Nov 2021

Bloomberg published an article “U.S. Warns Europe That Russia May Plan Ukraine Invasion”. The author uses really tough and even scary wording trying to give a message that “there’s no way of knowing Moscow’s true intentions” but the Kremlin is building military forces at the border of Ukraine and...

Build-up of migrants on Poland-Belarus Border leads to threat of more sanctions

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 12 Nov 2021

Hundreds of illegal immigrants are stranded on the frontier as temperatures plummet. They have very little in the way of tents, food or winter clothing. These people wish to enter Poland because it is an EU state. Poland and Lithuania have rushed troops to their border with Belarus and are buildi...

Russian IPOs slow but still much better than before the pandemic

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 11 Nov 2021

There have been some disappointing stock market launches and deals that have fallen through this year for Russian companies. That comes after a string of astonishingly successful IPOs. Two massive deals were axed in November 2021. The cars sharing company Delimobil and the discount alcohol store ...

Fuel prices frozen for three months from next week

HUNGARY · In Brief · 11 Nov 2021

The government cabinet decided today to set a HUF480 per litre administrative maximum for the consumer prices of fuels, for three months starting from next Monday (November 15). This level is 5.1% below the current average price of gasoline-95 and 6.3% below the average price of diesel.This measu...

Ukraine struggles with coronavirus but receives free vaccines

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 11 Nov 2021

The country had 833 coronavirus deaths on November 9. There were 17,000 new cases diagnosed that day. The EU will probably remove Ukraine from its white list (list of safe countries). That will make it all but impossible for Ukrainian residents who are unvaccinated to travel to the EU. The countr...

Has the final AKP-MHP counter-assault started?

TURKEY · In Brief · 10 Nov 2021

I had closed my last mid-week update with an ominous warning: “Ancient taboos of Turkish politics are crumbling down, as events accelerate to light speed. Expect the unexpected”. There are tentative signs of AKP-MHP indeed launching a final counterattack on the opposition alliance and economic mi...

The House concluded the vote on the Court-ordered payments PEC, the STF trial on the rapporteur’s amendments may end today, and Sergio Moro joins the Podemos

BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 10 Nov 2021

Only one edit to the Court-ordered payments PEC was approved, removing the possibility of changing the “golden rule” through the Budget Law. The proposal will now go to the Senate for further analysis. Rodrigo Pacheco has said that he may take the proposal directly to the plenary. In the STF, a m...

Martinelli was found "not guilty" in the second wiretapping trial

PANAMA · In Brief · 10 Nov 2021

Eight months after Ricardo Martinelli concluded his term as President of Panama on June 30, 2015, Panama Attorney General sent the Supreme Court five accusations against him for presumed wiretapping of political enemies, families, and friends. The Attorney argued the President was using sophistic...

Gazprom steps up supplies to the EU

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 09 Nov 2021

The Russian gas major commenced sending more gas to the EU. Gazprom made the announcement on November 9. The EU had castigated Russia from not ramping up the gas supplied as the EU was very short of gas as winter drew on. The EU suspected that Russia was manipulating the market and punishing the ...

Private investment is driving double-digit growth

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC · Report · 09 Nov 2021

After several weeks of indecision over whether to propose a tax reform, President Luis Abinader finally chose not to move forward, and indefinitely suspended discussions over the fiscal pact. This measure was widely accepted by both business and the public, with all sectors understanding that thi...

Awful inflation numbers for October, and it is not the end yet

HUNGARY · In Brief · 09 Nov 2021

Well, this was really disastrous. The headline rate of CPI-inflation rose to 6.5% yoy, up from 5.5% yoy in September. The median of analyst expectations by Portfolio.hu's poll was 6.1%. Core inflation and non-fuel inflation also went up sharply, to 4.7% yoy and 5.2% yoy, respectively:CPI-inflatio...

The House will try to conclude the first round vote on the Court-ordered payments PEC, and Bolsonaro will almost certainly join the PL

BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 09 Nov 2021

Eleven edits to the Court-ordered payments PEC still need to be analyzed, and in order to keep the text unchanged, the government needs to gather at least 308 votes for each edit. President Jair Bolsonaro will almost certainly join the PL, and given the ongoing negotiations, the PP could represen...

Chile: Piñera Impeached

CHILE · In Brief · 09 Nov 2021

As if a Social Explosion, a pandemic, a constitutional convention and a general election weren’t enough, Chile has now added presidential impeachment to the mix, as the House of Deputies voted early Tuesday morning in favor of a ‘Constitutional Accusation’, or impeachment, of Sebastián Piñera. Ac...