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Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
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(London)
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Hungarian investors redeem savings from investment funds to buy new superbond
11 Electric car sector deals position South Korea as Hungary’s top investor
12 Home Credit files for Hong Kong public offering
13 ECB shuts down troubled Latvian lender PNB Banka
14 Oltin fund to be first internationally listed Uzbek security
15 Iran Khodro starts production of Peugeot 301– without Peugeot
15 Kazakhstan hikes car output
16 Ukraine’s economy takes off? Economic growth jumps to 4.6% in 2H19
18 Ukraine considers repeating tender for offshore oil and gas block
19 Macedonia gets first ratings upgrade in 13 years
20 Ukraine's battered Odesa Port Plant relaunches operations
20 Sberbank dodges Brexit risks by opening Cypriot London branch
22 Construction of the Turkish Stream pipeline 90% finished
23 Turkish auto sales crash 66% in July after tax cuts expire
24 Ukraine Railway gets a $500mn Eurobond away on second attempt
24 Russian issuers place $7bn Eurobonds in 1H19, almost beat 2018
25 Fitch upgrades Russia’s rating, returning it to 2014 level
26 Ukrainian hryvnia flying this year as foreign investors pile into local bond market
27 Turkish lira slips after nine high- ranking central bank officials reportedly removed from duty
27 Russian Yandex.Taxi snaps up Vezet assets from rival Mail.ru
28 Wildberries overtakes Sportmaster as Russia’s biggest clothes retailer
29 Battle of the Russian voice assistants
31 Kazakhstan attempts to spy on citizens’ web use via encryption- busting Qaznet Trust Certificate
32 Hackers target Bulgaria’s revenue agency, accessing millions of financial records
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