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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Hungarian official threatens to wage war on foreign retailers
5 Hungary's largest bank merger granted exemption from competition scrutiny
6 Foreign investors eye bargains on distressed Budapest hotel market, but owners won't budge
7 Poland picks location for its Izera e-car plant, says production delayed until 2024
8 Karachaganak partners pay $1.3bn to settle oil and gas fields dispute with Kazakhstan
9 UK court freezes $5bn in assets connected to fugitive Kazakh banker Ablyazov
10 Russian retail investors piling into the stock market for the first time, but CBR worried about rising risks
12 EBRD investments reach record €11bn in pandemic- struck 2020
13 Russian government to sell First Channel TV broadcaster, but will keep golden share
14 Russian petrochemical giant Sibur closes $11bn joint venture deal to build Amur Gas Chemical plant with China’s Sinopec
16 Rio Tinto reports maiden ore reserve at Jadar project in Serbia
17 Turkish hotels in fire sale
18 Online video service ivi.ru starts
NASDAQ IPO registration procedure
19 AFC CAPITAL: Uzbekistan’s stock market re-rating has much further to run
21 Borsa Istanbul takes stock of its new speculator
21 Ozon’s oversubscribed IPO brings in $1.2bn
22 Romanian tech entrepreneurs expand into banking sector
23 Slovakia to invest €1.2bn in digitisation
23 Turkey hits Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok with second round of fines
24 Belarus’ IT industry in meltdown 26 E-grocery in Russia estimated to
reach $1.9bn in 2020, growing to $8bn by 2023
27 Government releases mandated phone app software list
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