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The UK accused Russian spies of poisoning opposition leader Navalny. The CDC assessed that once a vaccine is developed, it may take 6 to 9 months for enough Americans to get the vaccine to significantly affect the pandemic. The US Fed will keep interest rates near zero and stopped short of offering new stimulus measures to shore of the economy.

Conditions Updates

A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state. 

Russia Update: Belarus and Navalny

Since the August 9 presidential election, hundreds of thousands of protestors in Belarus have taken to the streets in Minsk. Meanwhile, prominent Kremlin critic and anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny has awoken from a medically-induced coma after being poisoned on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. Both events have triggered massive international economic and political implications of the recent developments in Belarus and Russia.

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