Essential CIS Politics: October 2021

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - Report 25 Oct 2021 by Alex Teddy and Alexei Panin

* Inflation and income stagnation continue to dog Russia despite there being some economic growth.

* Nord Stream 2 has been completed and is being tested.

* Azerbaijan held military drills with Turkey. This is to deter Iran as much as Armenia.

* Uzbekistan is in dialogue with the Taliban while Tajikistan is massing troops on the Afghan border.

* Georgia has jailed its ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.

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