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Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn Jaroslav Hroch in Prague
Avast, which owns the popular consumer antivirus company AVG, will apply to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange in the hope of raising $200mn (CZK4.1bn) in primary proceeds from an IPO, the Czech-founded company announced on April 12.
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St Petersburg's start-up scene flourishes on high talent and low costs
Contents
Avast to enter London bourse
in bid to raise up to $1bn 1 Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn 2 St Petersburg's start-up scene
flourishes on high talent and low costs 3 Romania entrepreneur aims to put home-grown UAV defence technology industry on the map 6
FinTech
Russia's mobile major MTS increases stake in Ozon to 16.7% 9
Blockchain
Romanian startups at the heart
of blockchain energy trading rally 10
Central Europe
Russian-Lithuanian startup Gosu.ai
raises $1.9mn from Russian and
French investors 13
Eurasia
Iran hit by cyber attack that left US
flag on screens 14 Iranian government set to block hugely popular Telegram messaging app 15 Iran's black market phone disconnection drive pushes up legal mobile imports 15
Eastern Europe
Internet catches up with TV on Russian
ad market 17 Sales of connected appliances jump
in Russia 17 Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 18 Russia ranks second in the world
for digital piracy 18 Russian messaging service Telegram raised another $850mn with ICO 19
Southeast Europe
Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 20
The Regions This Month 21
Filip Brokes in St Petersburg
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The crisis has already added to tensions in north- ern Kosovo, home to most of the country’s Serb minority. Several thousand people joined the protests over the tariffs in Mitrovica on Novem- ber 27. On the evening of December 2, Kosovo Serb lawmakers refused to leave the parliament building to protest against the 100% hike of cus- toms tariffs. Ten MPs demanded to meet Hahn to discuss the issue.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic previously urged EU partners to start solving the problem, saying the introduction of import taxes is against the CEFTA agreement and the EU’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement.
Serbia and Bosnia have decided not to take recip- rocal measures against Kosovo for the time being.
Earlier on December 3, Haradinaj said that the goal of imposing the customs tariffs is to reduce imports and boost domestic production.
“The 100% tax on Serbian and Bosnian products should not be seen as a chance to benefit from rising prices but to increase production and qual- ity,” Haradinaj said in the government statement.
He added that even at the beginning of the implementation of the measure, the tax has contributed to the increase of domestic production.