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COVER FEATURE
32 Putinomics: Russia’s oil and gas revenue to double in April
CENTRAL EUROPE
36 Magyar steps up as challenger to Orban in largest anti- government protest since 1988
38 Czech spy agency says pro- Kremlin media ring targets European Parliament elections in several states
40 Pellegrini beats Korcok to become the next Slovak president
41 Poland's Tusk says no to freshly agreed EU migration deal
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
42 Serbia’s President Vucic, the prophet of doom
43 Bulgaria and Romania join air and sea Schengen area
44 Romanian president's hopes of leading Nato fade
45 Local elections victory is Turkish main opposition party’s first national polls win since 1977
EASTERN EUROPE
46 Kremlin tries to link Hunter Biden to financing of Moscow’s Crocus City Hall terrorist massacre
47 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Olga Karatch on the squandered chance to change Belaru
EURASIA
50 Tajik foreign minister hits out at Russia’s apparent torturing of alleged terrorist
51 Armenia and Azerbaijan announce first border delimitation deal since the collapse of the USSR
52 Kazakhstan’s Kashagan claims against big oil firms now reportedly top $150bn
53 China expanding security footprint in Central Asia
OPINION
54 Ukraine’s power blackout means a dark future
56 Armenia's decisive turn towards the West
59 What's behind the Georgian government's revival of the foreign agents law?
60 Caspian military drills that exclude Russia and Iran have some people in Moscow asking questions
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
63 Ukraine's birth rate plummets to 300-year low as country’s population collapses
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