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4 I Contents bne December 2018
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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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 Yandex.Taxi experiments driverless vehicle in Russian tech city, celebrates first 1,000 rides
11 Russia's Gazprom has secretly borrowed €3.5bn abroad since August
11 MET Group enters burgeoning Hungarian solar energy market
12 Kazakhstan to get low-fare airline
13 Asia overtakes Europe as Russian Rosneft's main export market
13 Star performers: Azerbaijan and Turkey shoot up the Doing Business rankings
15 Jaguar Land Rover opens engineering centre in Budapest
16 Kazakhstan sells its first ever euro bond
17 IPO pricing values Slovenia’s NLB at €1.03bn
18 Ukraine's Naftogaz calls off $500mn Eurobond issue
on poor demand
19 4G growing fast in CEE with mobile penetrations running ahead of the global average
20 Yandex.Taxi continues foreign expansion with Israel
21 Russia's advertising market up by 13% in January-September
COVER FEATURE
22 Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis
is the king of the woods
CENTRAL EUROPE
28 Czech prime minister's son's revelations in the Storks Nest case could cost PM his job
29 Poland celebrates independence centenary with president in front of 250,000-strong far-right march
30 Impending Eurozone crisis to take its toll on CEE economies
31 Macedonian ex-PM flees to Budapest to avoid prison term
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