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4 I Contents bne May 2019
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
+49 17664016602 baris@bne.eu
+40 757369985 cnuttall@bne.eu
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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+44 753 529 6546 svanson@intellinews.com
6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Eurasia’s burgeoning populations to overtake a vanishing population in Eastern Europe
16 Russia’s Ministry of Finance holds another record breaking OFZ treasury auction
17 Russia's Polyus Gold sold 3.8% SPO for $400mn
18 Russian fast food operator Burger Rus plans IPO
19 Russian children's store Detsky Mir puts in robust 1Q19 trading results, launches in Minsk
20 Russia’s state development bank VEB.RF to buy major stake in stoligarch Rotenberg construction company Mostotrest
22 Emirates NBD obtains 20% ‘lira crisis’ discount on Sberbank’s Turkish unit Denizbank
23 Private equity investor buys Moldovan electricity distribution business from Naturgy
24 Head of Montenegro’s troubled Atlas Banka sues president, central bank governor
25 All but three Moldova-based airlines banned from operating in the EU
26 Drama in Lenta takeover bid as minorities prefer Magnit to Mordashov
27 Erdogan lashes out at FT over report on Turkish central bank’s ‘enhanced’ FX reserves
28 Central and Eastern European countries' high-tech exports boom
29 Hungary online retail sales post double-digit growth
29 State electricity firm opens Hungary's largest solar park
COVER FEATURE
30 Ukraine faces a bleak winter as
Russia prepares to cut it off
32 Naftogaz triples gas imports, races to build up reserves before Russia’s Gazprom cuts off supplies
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