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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Poland puts Gazprom-owned pipeline company under administration
5 Poland picks Westinghouse Electric to build first nuclear power plant
6 Central Asia: Chinese cars race ahead
7 IMF reaches agreement with Armenia on $165mn stand- by loan
8 IEA warns of major gas supply-demand gap in Europe next year
9 Russia’s VTB brings down the curtains in London on its “100+year history”
11 Three small Southeast European economies are outperforming Emerging Europe
14 ‘Brotherly’ Azerbaijan and Turkey build lucrative Karabakh business ties
16 Private equity poised for growth surge in CEE despite macro and geopolitical crises
18 Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund to sell 5% stake in national oil company KazMunayGaz
19 Turkish textile companies want even weaker lira
19 MPs warn political instability jeopardises Bulgaria's euro adoption timetable
20 Iran bans in-person sales of forex as rial dives
21 Sanctions unleash a tsunami of Russian M&A deals
26 Asia-to-Europe Digital Silk Way investors to lay ‘internet corridor’ across bottom of Caspian Sea
27 Serbia’s Ananas E-commerce aims to become Amazon of the Balkans
29 Pipistrel seeks future in electric passenger aircraft
31 Climate paralysis at COP27 as no progress made on 1.5 degrees
32 Uberwealthy are the worst climate criminals
34 Gas has potential to derail COP27’s green ambitions
35 Iran renewables capacity to exceed 1,000 MW by end of Persian year
in March
COVER FEATURE
37 The Ukraine war will break up Russia’s internet champion Yandex
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