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COVER FEATURE
28 Norilsk Nickel to ramp up capex into increasing production and cutting emissions
SPECIAL REPORT
30 YEARS OF TRANSITION
33 Ground zero and the fall of the wall in Berlin
37 A profound crisis of trust in democracy
38 CEE makes enormous progress but held back by governance issues
39 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall Pew poll finds progress but a values fault line lies across Europe
41 The East-West convergence in numbers
CENTRAL EUROPE
46 Central Europe shrugs off Western Europe’s slowdown
48 Warm relations between Budapest and Moscow confirmed at Putin's latest Hungary visit
49 EU’s top court rules Poland’s judiciary reform breaks EU law
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
50 Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia agree to set up common market
51 Moldovan PM Sandu loses confidence vote
52 Romanian parliament endorses Ludovic Orban's government
EASTERN EUROPE
54 Denmark greenlights Nord Stream 2 construction in its waters
55 ESG is a must-have in Russia, but adds no alpha
56 Ukraine president pledges to hold a referendum
on farmland sales for foreigners
57 Russia's consumer credit driven retail running out of steam, while Ukraine has a boom ahead
59 Moscow has the second highest road rage score in the world
EURASIA
60 President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov hits the road to woo investors
61 Azerbaijani gas ‘won’t flow to EU terminus until at least October 2020’
62 AFC: Capital Markets Reform is now a priority of Uzbekistan’s government
OPINION
64 IMF meetings, not as bad as you think
66 IMF ups the ante, demands government try to recover $15bn stolen from banks
70 Erdogan administration facing possibly decisive economic and political horizons
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