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COMPANIES & MARKETS
4 Poland, Hungary and Slovakia set to enter EU's Excessive Deficit Procedure
5 Czech minister says two investors are interested in taking over Liberty Steel’s insolvent local unit
6 Rail Baltica could require an extra €19bn in funding, say audit offices
8 Forget oil, forget gas. Kyrgyzstan has plans to power Central Asia with water
9 Hungary’s MVM Group acquires 5% stake in Shah Deniz gasfield in Azerbaijan
10 Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s appearance in Kyrgyzstan sparks hopes of ski resort investment
12 Russia overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms
13 EU to target LNG and helium in 14th sanctions package against Russia
14 EBRD to invest €1.5bn into Ukraine until the war ends
15 Turkey hits Chinese cars with additional 40% tariff
15 Serbia set to approve
Rio Tinto’s lithium project with new environmental guarantees
16 Russian engineers to switch on Turkey’s first nuclear plant within a year
17 Rising internal political tensions put Bosnia’s economic growth at risk, IMF warns
18 Russian bond investors increasingly unwilling to buy OFZ treasury bills as macro- economic concerns rise
20 Business as usual? US sanctions against Russia's financial market fail to incite panic
21 Hungarian state buys back Budapest Airport in deal worth €4.3bn
22 Energean cashes in €883mn from Croatia, Egypt and Italy asset sale
23 Russian e-commerce major Wildberries to buy billboard company Russ Group
24 Who consumes the most power to mine bitcoins?
25 Azerbaijan’s first generation of startups paves the way for technological lift-off
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