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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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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 Russia’s utility sector set to rally in 2020 as reforms progress
11 Russian stoligarch Rotenberg gets Moscow toll road contract
12 Belarus president threatens to take transit oil from Russia-EU pipeline amid dispute with Moscow
13 Ukrainian court bans the sale of Ferrexpo shares while CEO under investigation
14 Romania – can 2019’s best frontier market continue to perform in 2020?
15 Bulgaria’s parliament gives green light to central bank law needed for entry into ERM2
16 First EBRD equity investment in Uzbekistan in decade goes to food store chain
17 Wizz Air's largest shareholder sells 12.5mn shares in no-frills airline for around £500mn
17 Substantial losses hit Turkey ETF
19 Horizon Capital returns as shareholder in major Romanian- Moldovan winemaker Purcari
20 Founder of fintech firm Revolut Perestersky becomes Russia’s latest tech billionaire
20 Online sales up 22% y/y in Romania last year
21 Russia’s TCS Group ventures into fintech in Europe
22 Turkish rapid delivery groceries start-up Getir ‘in talks to raise additional $100mn in funding’
22 Czech online food shop Rohlik.cz begins operation in Hungary
23 WeShare to enter Budapest, Prague car-sharing markets
COVER FEATURE
24 Westlessness dominates the discussion at the Munich Security Conference
CENTRAL EUROPE
30 Macron’s Polish tour sees Warsaw and Paris warm up to ending diplomatic ice age
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