Economic growth in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) is set to weaken this year and next, hit by a slowdown in Russia, the region's key trading partner and source of remittances and investment, the International Monetary Fund said on Nov. 4.
Reuters: Russia’s slowdown to hit 2014-15 growth in Caucasus, Central Asia, says IMF
Russia's President Vladimir Putin reads documents during his meeting with Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on March 5, 2014.