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4 I Contents bne September 2018
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
+49 17664016602 baris@bne.eu
+40 757369985 cnuttall@bne.eu
Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
Subscriptions
Stephen Vanson
(London)
Advertising
Elena Arbuzova (Moscow) business development director (CIS)
Design
Olga Gusarova (London) art director
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Hungarian oligarch expands business empire to sportswear manufacturing
11 Austria’s Oesterreichische Kontrollbank to facilitate trade with Iran despite US sanctions
13 Russian petrochemical major Sibur reportedly preparing for IPO
14 EU approves plans to privatise Slovenia's largest bank NLB
15 Danske Bank to waive profit from suspicious transactions in Estonia
16 China refuses US request to stop buying Iranian oil, big blow dealt to sanctions strategy
17 Asian investors replace western players in
Russia's FDI
18 UK with top exposure to Turkish private sector foreign loans
20 Russia and Turkey step up fight against dollar’s dominance in trade
21 Czech CEZ reportedly sues Bulgaria over banned asset sale
22 Russia's Rosneft launches first ever share buyback programme as part of investment makeover
23 Robots to collect debts for Russia's VTB bank
23 PPF completes €2.8bn acquisition of Telenor's business in CEE
24 French car share BlaBlaCar buys Russian rival BeepCar of Mail.ru
25 Russia’s VK announces privacy changes to protect users from arrest
25 German Allgeier to pay over €10mn for 67% of Romanian software producer
COVER FEATURE
26 Making Croatia an Adriatic tiger?
SPECIAL FOCUS
30 Digging into Russian dividends
32 Total returns from dividend yielding stocks out pace the market
34 Secretive Surgutneftegaz is top dividend dog
35 Russian stocks are cheapest in emerging markets
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ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo
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