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2 I Contents bne July 2020
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
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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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4 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
8 Hungary’s Wizz Air uses crisis to aggressively take on competition by expanding to new routes
9 Hungary's richest man retains title with net worth of €900mn
9 Cybersecurity software firm Avast becomes first Czech company to join London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100 Index
10 Kazakhstan’s wealth fund sells 6.3% stake in world’s biggest uranium miner Kazatomprom
11 Emerging markets enjoying their strongest crisis bounceback ever
15 Russia's Yandex.Taxi's IPO still on, as it struggles to stay profitable
16 Plenty of jabber on the Borsa Istanbul but talk of Naturelgaz IPO not idle
17 For first time Turkey’s LNG imports outstrip pipeline gas imports
18 Turkey’s deal to join Euroclear not greeted with unbridled enthusiasm
19 Global pandemic is boon for ESG funds, outperforming their brown peers
21 Russia's Sberbank eyes 30% in Ozon e-commerce major
22 Turkish companies for first time use central bank’s yuan swap facility to cover import bills
23 Russian watchdog blocks major deal between Russian Yandex.Taxi and Vezet
23 Romanian unicorn UiPath expects $10bn valuation in new financing round
24 Hungary moves to online invoicing to combat shadow economy
25 Russia's IT industry faces severe brain drain
COVER FEATURE
26 Belarus looking forward to a long hot summer as presidential elections loom
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