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37 How bad has August's EM sell-off been?
CENTRAL EUROPE
38 CEE boom passes peak
41 Hungarian opposition blasts government for hefty state funding to BMW
42 LGBT Prague Pride supporters march as parliament debates same-sex marriage laws
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
44 Romania joins the bad boys of Central Europe
48 Violence erupts at mass protest staged by Romanian diaspora in Bucharest
49 Five Slovenian parties nomi- nate ex-comedien Sarec for prime minister
51 Rightwing Macedonian parties to boycott name deal referendum
EASTERN EUROPE
52 US declares economic war on Russia
53 Russian Audit Chamber to get stronger anti-corruption mandate
55 Seven political parties in the running for parliament seats in Ukraine's 2019 election
EURASIA
58 Zarif to Trump: Iran oil ban will fail, “world is sick & tired of US unilateralism”
60 Brutal terrorist attack in Tajikistan savage blow to fledgling tourism industry efforts
61 Europe: Ignore Trump’s call not to do business with Iran
63 Small print shows Caspian Sea summit was not the ‘summit to end all summits’
OPINION
64 Russia’s 1998 crisis redux 67 Erdogan’s embrace of
Western Balkans worries EU
68 Turkey's crisis a golden opportunity for the Kremlin
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
71 Investors jittery after Ukraine's hryvnia falls below UAH27 to the dollar
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