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4 I Contents bne May 2020
Senior editorial board
Ben Aris (Berlin) editor-in-chief & publisher
Clare Nuttall (Bucharest) news editor
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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)
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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
22 Is it time to buy the dip?
24 Russia’s central bank closes deal to
sell Sberbank to finance ministry
25 Bulgaria makes another U-turn over ERM2 entry plans
25 Lira slides to “red critical” levels as Turkey’s economic nightmare grows
27 How COVID-19 is shaking Russia’s online and offline retail
28 Hungary's media authority awards 5G licences for €350mn
29 Robot maker Promobot raises $2.7mn to develop artificial skin in Russian Far East
30 Romania’s IT industry is thriving under lockdown
31 Russia’s X5 Retail Group rolls out self-checkout (SCO) machines at its stores to help with social distancing
COVER FEATURE 32 IMF to the resque
CENTRAL EUROPE
38 Building a better post-COVID world order
40 Coronavirus infection rates reined in across much of Central and Southeast Europe
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10 Central European automakers resume production with new social distancing measures in place
12 Sharp falls in new car sales across EU in March as pandemic engulfs region
13 Turkish parliament caps dividends at 25% of 2019 profits
14 Both Romania’s car factories to resume full operations in early May
15 1Slovenia’s biggest dairy defies pandemic to start ice cream exports to China
16 Russia has zero FDI in 1Q20 17 Russian utilities in a time of
corona, first non-payments appear
18 Uzbekistan’s response to COVID-19 could see economy and society emerge stronger
19 Who is most exposed to remittances stop-shock?
21 See no virus evil, hear no virus evil, speak no virus evil in Turkmenistan
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