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4 I Contents bne April 2020
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
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(London)
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Elena Arbuzova (Moscow) business development director (CIS)
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
18 Russia’s top retail and tech companies join forces to hunt for innovations in the rest of the world
20 Russia to start developing its own 5G equipment
20 Ukraine-born startups raised more than half a billion dollars in 2019
21 Russian e-commerce leader Ulmart goes bust after three years of shareholder infighting
22 Romanian independent game developers merge
23 After Belarus and Ukraine, Russian gaming giant Playrix acquires studio in Armenia
23 Polish software maker SoftwareHut boasts one of the fastest expansion rates in Europe
COVER FEATURE 24 Pandemic in CEE
CENTRAL EUROPE
44 Ordinary People party trashes incumbent government "mafia" in Slovakia's general election
45 Coronavirus crisis to widen rich/ poor gap within Central and Eastern Europe
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10 Russian assets see all-time record $1.4bn of outflows in a week
11 Russian banker Tinkov of TCS Group posts GBP20mn in bail, fights extradition to US on tax fraud charges
12 Wave of buybacks in Russian blue chips follows drop in market
13 The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) ties up with Japan to mass- produce state-of-the-art COVID-19 testing kit
14 ContourGlobal abandons €1.3bn coal-fired power station project in Kosovo
15 King of the castle: Friday the 13th for Russian markets in third-worst crash ever
16 Ukraine shut out of international market by surging Eurobond yields
17 Kazakh tenge plunges to record low as world oil prices flounder
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