by CBBSS | Jun 23, 2018 | International News and Analysis
Bne IntelliNews runs a piece compiling analysts’ takes not only on the outcome of Sunday’s combination presidential-parliamentary elections in Turkey, but on the economic implications of the vote. Erdogan is widely predicted to win the presidential...
by CBBSS | Jun 22, 2018 | Regional News
A poll by the independent Levada Center finds 51% of Russians want Putin to stay on as president in 2024 – beyond his term limits – down from 67% who felt the same way in August 2017, bne IntelliNews reports. Putin’s popularity rating remains high at...
by CBBSS | Jun 18, 2018 | Regional News
With the World Cup getting underway, the Russian government announced it would raise the state pension age for men from 60 to 65 by 2028 and the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 by 2034, prompting allegations Moscow was trying to bury the story and shield Putin...
by CBBSS | Jun 5, 2018 | International News and Analysis
Ahead of the June 2018 Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, Alex Alexiev discusses major issues in Erdogan’s Turkey, including Islamism and the freefalling Turkish Lira. Could this signal trouble for Erdogan in the elections? Or does he have the vote...
by CBBSS | May 22, 2018 | Regional News
The Turkish central bank’s May survey of businesses and analysts found expectations for Turkey’s end-of-2018 inflation rate hit 11.07 percent, rising a whole point from 10.07 percent in April, bne IntelliNews reports. On Monday, the lira sunk to new record...
