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SPECIAL FOCUS – Kazakhstan
36 Kazakhstan emerges from salutary economic lesson
40 Gateway to the New Silk Road CENTRAL EUROPE
42 EU tries to use Russia's Nord Stream 2 to its own advantage
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
44 Foreign investors fear Turkish reform will take back seat after referendum
EASTERN EUROPE
46 Tapping the potential of Ukraine’s “black earth”
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50 52
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EURASIA
Central Asia risks greater exposure to Islamic extremism
OPINION
The US-Russian “axis of emptiness”
Putin's main weakness is voters' passivity
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS EVENTS
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IBA 10-12 IMF 26-27 InnaLabs 15
Kiwi.com 13-14
KTK pension fund 11
MedLife 31-32
MK Fintel Wind 33 Moody’s Investors Service 11, 37
NLB 21-22, 31-33
Oschadbank 26-27
Polaris Partners 16 PrivatBank 26-27 Profitero 16
PwC 32
RBI 34
RCS&RDS 31 Rubrika Finance 11
Samruk-Kazyna 36 Sirma 33
Slovenian Sovereign Holding 21, 33
Socar 11
Sofaz 10
Spirits International 17-18 Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings 21-22, 45
Turkiye Is Bankasi 45 Ukreximbank 26-27 World Bank 36
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