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34 Tinkoff Bank builds a virtual lifestyle bank
35 Retail’s battle of the Titans: Magnit vs X5
36 Residential real estate recovering
CENTRAL EUROPE
38 European Parliament condemns Hungary for violating EU values
39 Poland’s efforts to improve air quality to take up to 100 years to pay off
40 Busting Nord Stream 2 myths SOUTHEAST EUROPE
42 Fast fashion’s race to the frontiers
47 Turkey entering a steep recession
48 Bulgaria’s ruling coalition shaken by resignations
EASTERN EUROPE
50 Dodgy dealings in the VIP terminal – The battle
for Ukraine airports
51 FBI tried to recruit sanctioned Russian oligarch Deripaska
53 France's Decathlon is the latest foreign retailer to enter Ukraine's increasingly appealing market
54 The long march of Belarusian retail
EURASIA
56 Turkish, Russian devaluations are spilling over into Central Asia and the Caucasus
58 Singapore’s CG Corp Global to acquire instant noodles production plant in Kazakhstan
59 Iran ‘may consider rationing’ if economic strife worsens
60 State buyout of Tsesnabank loans might hint at lingering Kazakh banking sector woes
61 Ex-Telia executives go on trial over bribes paid to Uzbekistan’s Karimova
OPINION
62 The end of the post WWII world order
66 Georgia’s security conundrum
68 NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
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