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Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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+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)
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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 King of the Hungarian fertiliser market has operating licence suspended
11 More than 250,000 gather in Prague for anti-government protest
12 Hungarian investors snap up new super retail bond
13 Chinese agro investment expands as COFCO eyes Russia's third largest grain terminal
14 Ukraine’s PrivatBank suffered a bank run
after court decisions on denationalisation, says former shareholders looted over $7bn
15 Russia's CBR head warns of spending NWF sovereign fund
16 COMMENT: Romania reaches new historic levels of foreign debt
17 Fitch gives North Macedonia first rating upgrade in 13 years
18 Erdogan candidate suffers thumping defeat in Istanbul revote
20 WEEKEND WHAMMY:Moody’s cuts Turkey deeper into junk
22 Belarus'deadline to join Clearstream missed as agreement delayed
23 Croatia sells €1.5bn Eurobond on most favourable terms to date
24 Most Czechs still don't want to adopt the euro
24 Russia's Sberbank to acquire 25% in Muslim charity platform PayZakat
25 German DEG and Da Vinci Capital invest in DataArt
25 Growth of Russia's pirate content traffic declines again in 2018
26 Hungarian startup to revolutionise parking
26 Naspers’ PayU buys hotly tipped Turkish fintech company iyzico
27 Russia's internet major Mail.ru launches own voice assistant
28 Bulgaria, Czechia and Slovenia picked to host European supercomputing centres
28 Russian medical insurance startup attracts $3mn for international expansion
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