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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Czech car producer Skoda halves profit in 2020
5 Home Credit plunges to €584mn loss in 2020
6 Erste Bank net profit halves to €783mn in 2020
6 Volkswagen in negotiation with Czech government on building e-car battery plant
7 Details of frauds related to murky Air Moldova privatisation revealed
8 India's Sandhar to open car parts plant in Romania
9 Moscow to issue first regional green bonds
10 OPEC+ puts off production cut decision for a month
11 Russia’s cartoon Masha and the Bear becomes a top global entertainment brand
12 Iran ‘quietly’ resumes oil trade with China, India
13 Kazakhstan announces discovery of largest reservoir of hydrocarbons since independence
14 Fix Price raises $2bn with London IPO
16 Telegram messenger places $1bn of bonds
16 Central Asia bond review
18 Renaissance chief economist
expects another Turkish lira crash within two years
19 E-commerce rising stars of the Western Balkans
24 Russia to block Twitter in 30 days
if it doesn't comply with orders, boosting the domestic tech industry
26 Russian IT companies go into fintech: Forbes
26 Russia's Yandex maintains e-commerce ambitions, ecosystem seen as key
COVER FEATURE
28 Turkey’s slow-motion car crash
32 Turkey’s debt ‘least appealing in EMs’
33 Turkey’s banks “key source of vul- nerability” amid lira strife
34 Running on fumes: Turkey's dire external position
35 Foreign investors holding of stocks on Borsa Istanbul falls to all time low
36 Slovak political crisis threatens to derail reform drive"
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