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THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
Belarus top supermarket Eurotorg brushes off the coronacrisis with revenues down only 2% in dollar terms in 1H20
Questions raised over veracity of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine test data
Poland plans to curb electricity sales via power exchange to help coal industry
Iran earmarks 1% of SWF to stabilise stock market
Uzbekistan wins deals to produce Nike, Adidas footwear
Bulgarian protesters go toy shopping to support local businessmen targeted by authorities
Moody’s hits Turkey with downgrade to all-time lowest rating in unscheduled move
250 companies ‘in queue for Tehran IPO’
Capital Economics and IIF report capital flows have reversed and returning
to EMs
23 Polish e-commerce platform Allegro officially announces IPO
23 Russia to IPO state-controlled Sovkomflot
24 Shares of Russian Yandex soar on Tinkoff Bank mega-merger
25 Equity funds acquire Hungary’s leading meat processor
26 Furore over Bucharest land plot gift for €2.9bn Romexpo development
27 Uzbekistan’s Bukhara refinery buys in Honeywell technology to help meet government’s oil and fuel ambitions
28 Lukashenko’s crackdown leads to exodus of IT professionals
29 Contactless payments grow in popularity in Slovakia
30 Kazakhstan headhunts Belarusian IT developers, in vain so far
30 Poland tables draft bill that could chase Huawei off the market
31 Russia's national program for digital economy stumbles
32 Skolkovo suspends key grant programmes until next year due to crisis cuts
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