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COVER FEATURE
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EASTERN EUROPE
54 Belarus forces a Ryanair commercial plane to land in Minsk and arrests top opposition Nexta journalist
57 Russia and US to kiss and make up? Blinken and Lavrov meeting in Reykjavik
59 Russian business confidence index rises to zero for the first time in eight years
61 Belarus introduces new restrictions on political parties and media
EURASIA
62 Kyrgyzstan’s gold grab 65 Mongolia’s apocalyptic
sandstorms
OPINION
46 Money laundering pushes up
property prices in Western
Balkan cities Game
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31 Putin boxed in by Lukashenko
34 EU to target Belarusian potash exports
CENTRAL EUROPE
38 10 megatrends shaping emerging Europe in the post- pandemic 2020s
41 Central Europe joins the EV revolution
44 Czech former president Vaclav Klaus reportedly secretly sent a loan to Soviet Un-ion after revolution
45 Romanian, Polish presidents call for stronger Nato presence on the eastern flank
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
71 Kazakhs’ loathing of encroaching China rises as Lake Balkhash falls
74 Philanthropy in Russia – not for the faint-hearted
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
77 Russia’s Watcom shopping index stages recovery in April and May, shopping only 10% below 2019 levels
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49 Tourism’s long road to recovery
52 Meet “The Botox”, the mafia boss who’s singing like
a canary about the Erdogan regime on YouTube
70 Uzbekistan’s Capital Markets Development Agency restructured as privatisation looms
68 The five Stans back in the
