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30 ‘Expect less water next year,’ Kyrgyzstan warns downstream neighbours
31 Coal emerges down, but not out, from Glasgow
33 23 countries make zero- emissions vehicle pledge
COVER FEATURE
34 Ready for war at any time in
southern Armenia
CENTRAL EUROPE
38 Roll back judiciary reforms or you will get no recovery funds, EU’s von der Leyen tells Poland
39 Poland moots plans to make its army one of Nato’s largest
40 Joe Biden leaves out Hungary from list of participants in US Democracy Summit
41 Hungary’s 'Stop Soros' legislation against migration violates EU rules, says CJEU
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
42 Bulgaria reveals how millions of euros were siphoned
off from Hemus motorway construction
43 German MEP urges Albania to stop “mass killing” of street dogs
44 The Croatian town selling houses for 13 eurocents
46 Montenegro’s dysfunctional ruling coalition limps on
50 New photos of guns and cash in Bulgarian ex- PM Borissov’s bedroom published days before election
EASTERN EUROPE
52 EU slaps Belarus with
new sanctions for stoking migration crisis at Poland’s border
53 UK medical journal The Lancet publishes study, finds the one-shot Sputnik Light vaccine safe and effective
54 Operation Garden Ring banks shut down
57 Russia's population policy action plan to 2025 about to start
EURASIA
58 Savitsky museum, the Louvre of the Steppe
62 Russia strikes deal on Iran's multi-trillion dollar Chalous gas field as ‘final act securing control over European energy market’
63 Uzbekistan’s cement giant Qizilquwvmsement on a roll
64 Climate change ‘destroying honey production in Kyrgyzstan’
66 Kazakhstan looks to nuclear amid crypto-driven energy shortage
67 Uzbekistan’s multi-coloured textile revolution
OPINION
70 Talk of war increases long- standing tensions between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Nato
71 Is Russia’s build-up of troops on Ukraine’s border a new Cuban Missile crisis?
72 The West’s response to Lukashenko’s migrant gambit might seal Belarus’ fate
74 German traffic light coalition could worsen frictions with CEE
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