Essential CIS Politics: May 2021

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - Report 26 May 2021 by Alex Teddy and Alexei Panin

* Russia is struggling with inflation, and interest rates may rise again.

* Belarus demands airliner land in Minsk, prompting heavy sanctions.

* Russia and NATO countries expel several of each other’s diplomats.

* Russia has tightened restrictions on foreign-owned media.

* Rosneft has turned a small profit for the first time in several months.

* Border clashes with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan end in de-escalation.

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