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Vested interests threaten to capture Ukraine’s Centrenergo privatisation
Sergei Kuznetzov in Kyiv
The Ukrainian authorities will attempt to privatise the country's leading power generating company Centrenergo in late November-early December. However, the privatisation tender of what Kyiv has branded as a jewel in the crown of state assets seems to have been reduced to a farce, with the transfer of the company to a businessman who has close ties with Petro Poroshenko's team.
Nationalists head for election victory in divided Bosnia
Denitsa Koseva in Sofia
As Bosnia & Herzegovina prepares to hold its eighth general election since the end of the bloody 1992-1995 war on October 7, the country seems more politically divided than ever.
There is little hope that such divisions will be eased by the election, in which ethnic parties
Centrenergo's Trypilska power plant has been the largest supplier of electric power in the Kyiv region since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was shut down.
On October 3, the Ukrainian cabinet approved
a starting price for the sale of the 78.3% stake
in Centrenergo of UAH5.98bn ($210mn), according to State Property Fund's (SPF’s) head Vitaliy Tru- barov. This will be the biggest privatisation of the year and has been widely anticipated as the com-
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Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on the campaign trail. Dodik is running for the state-level presidency despite advocating for the breakup of the country.
are once again expected to take control of all institutions.
Even more worrying, among the most probable winners of the elections for the state-level tripar-
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