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COVER FEATURE 28 Russia’s new war
middle class
CENTRAL EUROPE
32 Czech ammunition initiative for Ukraine will use earnings from Russian assets frozen in EU
33 Hungary under fire for easing visa restrictions on Russians and Belarusians
34 Ice hockey players in Russian league included in Slovak national squad following months of disputes
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
36 US demands quick curbs from Turkey on “military” trade with Russia
37 Balkan politicians eye Russia- style crackdown on NGOs with mooted ‘foreign agents’ laws
39 Thirteen lose lives in violent rent confrontations between landlords and tenants in Turkey
EASTERN EUROPE
40 The Russian prisoner swap should have included Navalny
41 First F-16 fighters arrive in Kyiv, but they will make no difference on the battlefield
43 Lukashenko strives to lift his approval ratings ahead of the 2025 presidential elections, amidst questions about his health
45 Ukraine invests over $7bn in defence industries, plans to increase production six-fold
47 Leadership struggle engulfs Belarusian democratic opposition in exile
EURASIA
48 Georgia's United National Movement chair Tinatin Bokuchava
51 Russia needs Central Asian migrants to do the work that there aren’t Russians to do – but it’s driving them out
53 Jailed journalist reveals torture details in Baku Detention Center
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OPINION
54 Croatia’s troubled past becomes early presidential election issue
56 Sino-Indian relations warm, but Delhi sticking to
a neutral middle path
59 Alleged Tajikistan coup plot “figment of regime’s imagination”, suggests analyst
61 Stepping-up economic sanctions is urgently needed to constrain Russia
NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
63 Sberbank improved its forecast for Russian GDP growth this year to bullish 3.8% from 2.8%
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