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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Familia leads Russia’s off- price retailers with knock- down high fashion offering
6 Vodka drinking on the decline in Russia
8 Sber becomes Europe’s most valuable bank
8 Russian IT major Softline to hold IPO, use cash for M&As
9 Ukraine to be self-sufficient in gas and abandon imports within five years – Naftogaz
10 Czech financial group PPF to sell 30% stake in CETIN to investment fund GIC
11 Czech new car sales down by 16% in September as Skoda halts production be-cause of chip shortage
12 How Taliban rule will either assure or doom the TAPI gas pipeline
13 Uranium: what the explosion in prices means for the nuclear industry
15 Serbia joins Clearstream, opening up domestic securities market to foreign investors
16 Russia’s RTS stock index breaks above 1,800 for the first time in 10 years
17 Russian car-sharing major Delimobil files for listing in New York
18 Russian ruble enters 4Q21 on a strong note
20 Non-oil exports driving Russia towards new all-time high current account balance this year
21 Turkish lira drops through 9
22 Russian internet major Yandex adds
London to foodtech expansion
23 Russian internet major Mail.ru rebrands to VK in ecosystem drive
23 Russian venture market reached $1bn in 1H21
24 Facebook and Google exposed to record fines for not removing unlawful content in Russia
25 Ten years after start in Ukraine, GitLab lands on Nasdaq at $11bn valuation
26 Mail.ru Group pursues gaming acquisitions across Russia and Belarus
27 Kazakhstan to restrict crypto miners amid power shortages
28 Russia to become carbon neutral by 2060
30 Ecosphere says Turkey’s net zero emissions by 2053 target looks entirely unrealistic
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