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4 I Contents bne April 2019
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)
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(London)
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Elena Arbuzova (Moscow) business development director (CIS)
Design
Olga Gusarova (London) art director
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4 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Electric vehicles still in the slow lane in CEE
13 Hungary's automotive sector outpaces industrial growth despite week-long strike at Audi
14 Primark picks Slovenia for first CEE store opening
15 Mortgages have exploded in Russia but now Putin wants the rate under 8%
16 Ukraine's banks are back in profit but high NPLs and interest rates are crushing the business
17 Ukraine's net FDI grows $690mn in 2018, but investment needs are ten times higher
18 Uncertainty in Russia’s residential real estate about to end and boost the sector’s growth
19 Fallen star: First recession in Turkey for a decade
21 Trump to end Turkey’s preferential trade treatment status
22 International investors remain overweight in Russian stocks, but oil sector loses its appeal
23 BRICS countries could launch integrated payment system
24 ITI Funds launch a new cryptocurrency tracking ETF fund
25 Just five Russia-connected companies ranked among world’s top IT service providers
26 Belarus Hi-Tech Park exports up by a third in 2018 to $1.414bn
26 Hungary online retail sales post double-digit growth
27 European patent applications from CEE states rise
COVER FEATURE
28 West Balkans: Too small to be
the next big thing?
CENTRAL EUROPE
32 CEE/CIS countries outperform income peers in terms of gender equality at work
34 Nearly all the countries of Eastern Europe made progress in improving the rule of law
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