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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Bank Otkritie makes comeback with record profits, looks for buyer
5 Yukos shareholders claim $5bn appeal award from Russia
6 Farming was Ukraine’s most profitable business in 2020, outlook for this year is excellent too
7 Romania set to increase wheat exports as harvest reaches 14-year high
8 Kazakhstan bans agro exports amid drought
8 Artel becomes first private Uzbek manufacturing company to obtain credit rating
9 Kyrgyz security services claim enough evidence to press on with removal of Cen-terra from Kumtor gold mine
10 Da Vinci fund III aims to de-Russify its portfolio companies and make them more valuable
12 Belarus to get $1bn as part of the IMF's $650bn SDR bonanza
13 First restaurant with food prepared by robotic chefs to open in Zagreb
14 Russian online product sales may exceed RUB1 trillion by 2024
15 Belarus' IT sector continues downward spiral
16 EU takes carbon pricing initiative with CBAM
18 Last chance to cut emissions and save the climate
20 Kazakhstan set to lose quarter of grain crop as drought hammers Eurasia
21 Russia’s stumbling along in the race to carbon neutrality
COVER FEATURE
23 The crushing weight of China’s debt
burden on Eurasia
SPECIAL REPORT
Afghanistan falls to the Taliban
27 Kabul falls to the Taliban in one day 30 Can China tap Afghanistan’s lithium
treasure?
31 As Taliban regime takes shape, Central Asia and Iran assess fate of Afghanistan investments
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