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4 I Contents bne November 2018
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
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(Kyiv, Minsk)
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Moneta, Air Bank and Home Credit to create third largest Czech bank
11 Moscow Exchange to buy 20% in Kazakhstan Stock Exchange
12 Russia's FinMin to promote ruble transactions, but promises not to force them on population
13 Turkey to import Russian wheat using rubles in a first
13 Magna opens BMW seating facility at new Czech plants
14 Shell and Eni-led consortium agree $1.1bn profit-sharing settlement with Kazakhstan
15 Russia's car sales slow down in September, but demand strong ahead of VAT hike
16 Turkish lira at new all- time low in Real Effective Exchange Rate terms
17 Chocolate giant Barry Callebaut eyes fast-growing Russian market, acquires peer
18 Belarus retail giant Eurotorg mulls $300mn IPO in London
19 Russia's Yandex acquires coupon aggregator Edaadeal
19 Russian cross-border online shopping up by 24% to over $5bn as of June
20 Czech company Prusa holds an extraordinary position in 3D printing among CEE countries, growing by 17,118%
21 Croatia’s Rimac to supply EV technology to Automobili Pininfarina in €80mn deal
22 Russian data storage law not properly implemented
COVER FEATURE
23 Ukraine’s renewable rush still
faces uncertaintiesr
CENTRAL EUROPE
30 Croatia posts highest increase in insolvencies in CEE in 2017
31 Further delay to Paks nuclear power plant expansion
32 Hungarian government to abruptly phase out home savings funds
33 Pro-Russian party wins Latvia election but new government could be long in the making
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