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4 I Contents bne February 2020
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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+40 757369985 cnuttall@bne.eu
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Eurasia & Southeastern Europe
William Conroy (Bucharest)
editor
Central Asia
Kanat Shaku (Almaty) bureau chief
Eastern Europe
Sergei Kuznetsov
(Kyiv, Minsk)
Subscriptions
Stephen Vanson
(London)
Advertising
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 Hungary’s state electricity company buys out loss- making power plant from oligarch
11 Czech firearms producer Ceska Zbrojovka plans IPO to fund US expansion
12 Poland fines Volkswagen PLN120mn for Dieselgate
12 Hydrogen-powered drone being developed in Hungary
13 Russia, Ukraine agree on new five-year transit deal as US slaps sanctions on Nord Stream 2, TurkStream pipelines
15 Ukraine land market reforms watered down but on track to be introduced in 2020
17 Russia real estate legends to raise €140mn for
fund with focus on last mile warehouses for the e-commerce sector
19 Economic crash means three-quarters of Turks now ‘prefer supermarket private labels’
20 Western Balkans has potential for up to €20bn wind energy investment says new report
21 Turnover of Czech e-shops increased to a record CZK161bn in 2019
22 Hungary takes over fertility clinics to offer free IVF services in bid to halt population decline
23 Sales of hybrid cars in the Czech Republic up by 73% y/y in 2019
23 Romanian AI startup AlphaBlock plans IPO in 2020
COVER FEATURE
24 Is Putin a megalomaniac?
28 Head of Russian tax service Mikhail Mishustin appointed prime minister
30 OUTLOOKS 2020
CENTRAL EUROPE
32 EU outlines €100bn plan to support coal regions' transition to climate neutrality
33 Visegrad leaders stand united at Prague summit
33 Hungarian forint slips to all-time low against the euro
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