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CENTRAL EUROPE
28 Copious mud flies as starting pistol is fired on Czech presidential race
29 Commercial interest in Baltic Pipe affirmed
30 Higher exports and investment push first-half growth in all EBRD countries bar two
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
34 Are investors about to take flight from Romania?
37 Russia wants EU guarantees to continue with Turkish Stream development
38 Turkey says purchase of Russian S-400 missile system completed
EASTERN EUROPE
40 Iran, Russia display strategic unity and envision huge oil deal as Putin visits Tehran
42 Russia's bank clean-up got hijacked and landed a senator in jail
EURASIA
44 Kazakhstan’s new military doctrine shifts logic of country’s security agenda
46 ‘Paradise Papers’ team exposes Kazakhstan’s ‘Secret Billionaires’
48 Uzbekistan makes top
10 in World Bank’s Doing Business global improvers
OPINION
50 Uzbekistan: Iran’s unlikely bastion of influence in Central Asia?
53 Six reasons why Russia does not want a higher oil price
54 The importance of Russia’s unimportant prime minister
56 NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
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