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4 I Contents bne June 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
10 Czech-Slovak billionaires Kretinsky and Tkac become fourth-largest shareholders in US Macy's
11 Uber Eats exits all but core CEE markets
12 Mongolia scraps $3bn IPO for shares in flagship coal mine
13 Four banks in Azerbaijan go under administration as pandemic and oil crisis impacts hit home
14 Black April for Russian car market as sales plunge by 72%
15 Russia's Sberbank income collapses, plunging by 85%, return on equity down to 3% in April, RAS results show
17 Russian diamond sales lose their sparkle as Alrosa's drop 95%
18 Moldova considers issuing first Eurobonds since 1997 18 Serbia raises €2bn from 7-year Eurobond
19 Russian OFZs are an Emerging Markets investor's safe haven
22 Bubble jitters grow as data shows €3bn invested in Tehran Stock Exchange in two months
22 Rencap marks Russia up to Buy 24 Poland signs contract with Italy’s
Saipem to lay Baltic Pipe
25 Turkey’s TAV and partner pay $415mn for Almaty Airport
26 The lira has belly-flopped and London, it is your fault
28 Russian internet guru Pavel Durov cancels the TON blockchain project
29 E-grocery surges in April, could more than triple in 2020
30 North Macedonia ranks 2nd in Europe for quality of mobile services finds Germany’s Connect
30 Revolut launches bank in Lithuania 31 Pressure on Iran’s public
broadcaster to hand over frequencies for 5G internet
COVER FEATURE
32 The Growers - a handful of
countries in New Europe are coping with the coronacrisis and are still expanding
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