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Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn Jaroslav Hroch in Prague
Avast, which owns the popular consumer antivirus company AVG, will apply to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange in the hope of raising $200mn (CZK4.1bn) in primary proceeds from an IPO, the Czech-founded company announced on April 12.
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St Petersburg's start-up scene flourishes on high talent and low costs
Contents
Avast to enter London bourse
in bid to raise up to $1bn 1 Avast to enter London bourse in bid to raise up to $1bn 2 St Petersburg's start-up scene
flourishes on high talent and low costs 3 Romania entrepreneur aims to put home-grown UAV defence technology industry on the map 6
FinTech
Russia's mobile major MTS increases stake in Ozon to 16.7% 9
Blockchain
Romanian startups at the heart
of blockchain energy trading rally 10
Central Europe
Russian-Lithuanian startup Gosu.ai
raises $1.9mn from Russian and
French investors 13
Eurasia
Iran hit by cyber attack that left US
flag on screens 14 Iranian government set to block hugely popular Telegram messaging app 15 Iran's black market phone disconnection drive pushes up legal mobile imports 15
Eastern Europe
Internet catches up with TV on Russian
ad market 17 Sales of connected appliances jump
in Russia 17 Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 18 Russia ranks second in the world
for digital piracy 18 Russian messaging service Telegram raised another $850mn with ICO 19
Southeast Europe
Russia's HeadHunter Group seeks
to raise $250mn with NASDAQ IPO 20
The Regions This Month 21
Filip Brokes in St Petersburg
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appear not spectacular enough. The ruling party seems unlikely to produce good legislation on safety at mass events – it was close to non-exist- ent in Gdansk – or improving the system of psy- chiatric care. PiS has a track record of very poor legislation.
Unwilling to budge and incapable of drawing positive practical lessons from the assassination, PiS will likely escalate tension and direct charges of inciting hatred in public debate back to the op- position. That would not be for the first time.
After the tragic crash of the presidential plane in Smolensk, Russia, that killed President Lech Kac- zynski and 95 other top officials on board in 2010, the shock subsided fast.
Smolensk laid the foundation for today’s divisions after PiS had pushed a theory that the crash was, in fact, an outcome of a plot to kill Kaczynski, im- plying Civic Platform and Russia were complicit. That was PiS crossing the Rubicon. There could be no turning back: if you killed our president,
we will not rest until we crush you, the ruling party seemed to say.
PiS-run public television TVP ran material on Adamowicz’s death hours after it was confirmed. The story focused on hate speech in public debate in Poland and the only examples came from politi- cians of Civic Platform.
“I am convinced that Pawel would want me to say the following words. We must end hate. We must end hate speech. We must end contempt. We must end baseless accusations against others,” Dominican priest and former anti-communist ac- tivist Ludwik Wisniewski said in a eulogy followed by long applause from the mourners inside the church and those out in the streets around it.
In what will ultimately prove a disgrace to the memory of the late mayor Adamowicz, it seems only likely the call will fall on deaf ears.