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SPECIAL REPORT
42 Building the New Uzbekistan 44 Giorgi Paresishvili, chairman
of Tashkent Stock Exchange
46 Orient group investing
into Uzbekistan's growing population and investment- friendly climate
49 Xalq Retail, the people’s supermarket
52 Uzbekistan showcases IT progress at ICT Week 2022 in Samarkand
CENTRAL EUROPE
54 Hungary faces risk of severe economic instability if it does not get frozen EU funds, warns Oxford Economics
56 Natasa Pirc Musar elected first female president of Slovenia
57 Czech holiday weekend sees a clash of demonstrations over Ukraine
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
58 EU foreign policy chief says Serbia and Kosovo are on the edge of conflict
59 Bombing in heart of Istanbul kills at least six
60 Edi Rama, the Albanian PM who took on the UK government over migration
61 President and parliament locked in power struggle to control Montenegro
63 Moldovan oligarch Plahotniuc announces political comeback
EASTERN EUROPE
64 Ukraine fatigue builds, but Western support for Kyiv unlikely to falter soon
66 Huge relief after Black Sea grain deal extended for 120 days
67 US revokes Russia’s market economy status
68 Russia’s imports recover as trade pivots to the east
70 Kherson's liberated villages start to revive after horrors of occupation
EURASIA
74 EU, UK slap sanctions on Iran on same day regime announces first ‘unrest’ death sentence
75 Uzbekistan said to be lobbying for lifting of sanctions on Russian billionaire Us-manov
76 Eurasian central bank governors battling inflation with mixed success
79 Putin's negotiations with Armenia and Azerbaijan don't bring any concrete results
80 Mongolians and chess, almost as traditional as herding and wrestling
OPINION
82 There’s no revolution on the horizon, but something has broken
84 Iran for first time involved
in major war on European continent, conclude analysts
86 Moldova’s beleaguered pro- EU authorities opt for radical and risky steps
88 Central Europe's populists follow the Putin playbook to control the media
90 Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are only talking at each other. Another conflict is looming
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