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2 I Contents bne March 2019
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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4 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
8 Has Turkey equity market rally run its course?
11 Turkish 3-year sukuk raises $2bn at 5.8% on soaring demand
13 Kosovo signs €210mn railway upgrade project with Italy’s GCF
14 Tired of waste and stealing, Kremlin mulls taking control of SOEs investment programmes
15 Russia buys a record amount of gold in 2018
16 Kazakhstan ‘postpones’ oil company KMG's IPO plans to after 2019
17 Kazakhstan bites bullet and completes $3.4bn bailout of second largest lender
18 Russia’s Tinkoff Investments brought the most private investors to the Moscow Exchange in 2018
19 The Central Bank of Russia to expand its new peer-to- peer Rapid Payment System (RPS) to B2C payments
20 Russia’s strong current account supports our ST positive view on RUB
21 Turkey’s gaming exports hit $1bn+ in value last year says GIST expo rep
COVER FEATURE
22 Floods of foreign companies coming to Uzbekistan to implement projects
24 Uzbek car output up by 38.8% y/y in January 2019
25 Uzbekistan’s eurobond debut proves smash hit
CENTRAL EUROPE
26 Poland concedes setback in quest to stop Nord Stream 2
27 Lithuania wary of Russian meddling in busy election season
28 Hungary becomes “partly free state” in latest Freedom House ranking
29 Czech capital Prague is the seventh richest region in EU in 2017 in terms of GDP per capita
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