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33 Russian Sberbank takes on Yandex by teaming up with Mail.ru
34 Has the Kremlin already scuppered Russia's 5G network before it's been built?
COVER FEATURE
37 Putin's 20 years on the job
in numbers
CENTRAL EUROPE
44 Southeast Europe the growth star in CEE banking, but the profit pool is elsewhere
46 Central, Eastern and Southeast European sovereigns to return to debt markets on large scale in 2020, Raiffeisen says
48 Poland’s PiS pays for domestic antics with marginalisation in Europe
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
50 Georgia in vino vertitas
52 Turkish central bank chops policy rate (for “central bank” read “Erdogan”)
54 EIB freezes new lending linked to Turkish government as part of EU’s Cyprus drilling row response
55 Kosovan PM resigns after being summoned by Hague- based war crimes court
EASTERN EUROPE
56 Kremlin ups its game with police violence at Moscow protests
59 Russia's government and CBR argue over paths to reignite growth
60 Ukraine to create farmland market this year presidential economic adviser says
61 Russian Zvezda shipyard loses two major icebreaker orders
EURASIA
62 Tehran mocks “childish” US as Washington slaps sanctions on Iranian foreign minister
64 Co-founders of Georgia’s TBC Bank Group step down, prepare to battle money laundering charges
65 Georgia’s PM resigns, says he “fulfilled my mission”
OPINION
66 Putin at work at the illiberal G20 summit
67 Why Brussels is unnerved by China’s Balkan overtures
69 Tackling Ukraine’s health crisis requires emergency reforms
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
70 Central European economies decouple from Eurozone slowdown
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