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4 I Contents bne December 2019
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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6 THE MONTH THAT WAS COMPANIES & MARKETS
10 Shares of Russian oil dinosaur Surgut soar in mystery rally
11 Norilsk Nickel target price upped by a quarter as climate crisis to send the cost of nickel and palladium soaring from 2020
13 Russia's billionaire car salesman, owner of Rolf to sell up
13 Veteran Russian tour operator Intourist reportedly considers IPO
14 Hungary delays pension bond issue due to success of MAP+
14 Bratislava in the running to host the Volkswagen Passat plant moved from Turkey
15 Tbilisi on edge as Georgians take to streets over rejection of voting reform
17 Chinese interested to invest in flying car from Slovakia
17 Romania’s largest airline Blue Air eyes Bucharest IPO after streamlining operations
18 Russia’s RTS index hits six year high, MOEX sets a new all time record as Santa rally gets underway
19 Yandex sets up NGO to hold its golden share, changes governance to reassure government and investors
21 Turkish asset manager ‘to launch first-of-kind fund with foreign partner to invest in corporate NPLs’
22 Bulgaria sets April 2020 as new target for entering ERM2
23 Czech PPF acquires CME’s business in CEE for $2.1bn
23 Czech-Slovak billionaires Kretinsky and Tkac become the largest shareholders in Metro AG
24 Iran shuts down internet as petrol riots crackdown escalates
25 Draft law limiting foreign ownership of Russian tech companies softened to set 49% cap
25 Georgia’s Bitcoin mining “sucking its power grid dry”
26 Poland teams up with commercial telecoms to develop 5G network
27 Ukraine expects to more than double its renewable capacity in 2019
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