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Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn Jaroslav Hroch in Prague
Avast, which owns the popular consumer antivirus company AVG, will apply to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange in the hope of raising $200mn (CZK4.1bn) in primary proceeds from an IPO, the Czech-founded company announced on April 12.
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St Petersburg's start-up scene flourishes on high talent and low costs
Contents
Avast to enter London bourse
in bid to raise up to $1bn 1 Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn 2 St Petersburg's start-up scene
flourishes on high talent and low costs 3 Romania entrepreneur aims to put home-grown UAV defence technology industry on the map 6
FinTech
Russia's mobile major MTS increases stake in Ozon to 16.7% 9
Blockchain
Romanian startups at the heart
of blockchain energy trading rally 10
Central Europe
Russian-Lithuanian startup Gosu.ai
raises $1.9mn from Russian and
French investors 13
Eurasia
Iran hit by cyber attack that left US
flag on screens 14 Iranian government set to block hugely popular Telegram messaging app 15 Iran's black market phone disconnection drive pushes up legal mobile imports 15
Eastern Europe
Internet catches up with TV on Russian
ad market 17 Sales of connected appliances jump
in Russia 17 Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 18 Russia ranks second in the world
for digital piracy 18 Russian messaging service Telegram raised another $850mn with ICO 19
Southeast Europe
Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 20
The Regions This Month 21
Filip Brokes in St Petersburg
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sition daily Cumhuriyet from December 30, 2016 to March 9 this year. He was accused of tweeting and writing news articles for Cumhuriyet in support of terrorist organisations PKK, DHKP-C and FETO.
Sik was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. It was the harshest penalty handed down when a court on April 25 sentenced 14 staff of the Cumhuriyet newspaper to prison on terrorism charges and acquitted three. All those sentenced have appealed the verdict.
Foreign observers including German MEPs, the deputy head of mission for the British Consulate General in Istanbul and other European diplo- mats attended the July 24, 2017 opening day of the Cumhuriyet trial.
"It's clearly a political trial, it's to threaten independent journalists, especially ones
like Ahmet Sik. He was one of the most known investigative journalists in Turkey and he is in prison because of his investigations and because of the quality of his articles and not because he
is a terrorist," German MEP Rebecca Harms, a friend of Sik who also attended the trial's opening day, told Britain's Daily Telegraph.
Sik was elected as an HDP MP in the June 24 snap polls.