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Central Europe's
#populists
follow the Putin playbook to control the
#media
.
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#czechia
#slovakia
#poland
#hungary
@AspenInstCE
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Karabakh blockade reaches critical point as food supplies run low
#Armenia
#Azerbaijan
#NagornoKarabakh
#bneStories
#foodcrisis
#Nagorno
#Blockade
#starving
#humanitariancrisis
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EU Council adopted €18bn aid for Ukraine despite veto by Hungary .
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#hungary
#ukraine
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The economic rationale for an oil and gas embargo on Putin’s regime
via Sergei Guriev of Sciences Po in Paris, Oleg Itskhoki of University of California in Los Angeles
#sanctions
#bne
#UkraineRussiaWar
#Ukraine
#OOTT
#ONGT
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#Lufthansa
to launch a First Class Corona Lounge in Moscow to immunise rich Germans
#Russia
#coronavirus
#vaccine
#bne
#emergingmarkets
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BEST OF THE WEEK: CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Media risk underplaying significance of Tajikistan’s attack on Kyrgyzstan says academic
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#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
Avito tops Similarweb's list of most visited classified ad sites in November 2021 as emerging markets take the lead in this fast-growing sector.
#classifiedads
#tech
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COMMENT: Eastern Ukraine is close to falling, but Putin now needs a peace, fast
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
#Ukraine
#UkraineInvasion
#UkraineWar
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Armenia's exports to Russia almost triple in 2022
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
#Ukraine
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Armenia
#sanctions
#trade
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TOP STORIES THIS WEEK: Belarus' flower man given 8.5 years in jail, tells court of his harrowing treatment and torture
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#boycottAustria
campaign goes viral after Vienna blocks
#Romania
and
#Bulgaria
from joining
#Schengen
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
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Beijing reportedly shelves construction of
#China
#Kyrgyzstan
#Uzbekistan
#railway
. Another big blow for
#CKU
proponents who’ve been trying to get project moving for 25yrs+. Financing said to be big unresolved difficulty
#Freight
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PANNIER: Russia’s two centuries of Central Asia dominance are over
#uzbekistan
#Kazakhstan
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
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PANNIER: A very
#Turkmen
coup. Gurbanguly
#Berdimuhamedov
returns as head of state albeit w/ a different title. The word is, son and president
#Serdar
has proved a bad negotiator
#Turkmenistan
#Ashgabat
#Regime
#Politics
#Gas
#ONGT
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Rubel rises to seven-year high, best performing currency in the world
#Russia
#Ukraine
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#sanctions
#RussiaUkraineWar
#FX
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Statistical study shows half the votes in
#DumaElection
were probably fake
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
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Ukraine becomes the poorest country in Europe again
#bneChart
#Russia
#Ukraine
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#sanctions
#RussiaUkraineWar
#Moldova
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BEST OF THE WEEK: Tajikistan’s unprecedented GBAO crackdown threatens a centuries-old culture
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Belgrade mayor under pressure as ex-wife claims he bragged about Savamala demolitions
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CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Tashkent’s deadly miscalculation in Karakalpakstan
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CENUSA: The Transnistrian conflict settlement: three scenarios in the context of the geostrategic interests of Moldova, Ukraine and Russia
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
#Ukraine
#Moldova
#grain
#sanctions
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McCain accuses Republican senator Rand Paul of working for Putin to block
#Montenegro
from joining Nato
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PANNIER: Russia is pushing Turkmenistan out of the natural gas market
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#turkmenistan
#russia
#gas
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Russia has sanctioned 49 UK officials and journalists, including bne IntelliNews columnist
@MarkGaleotti
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
#Ukraine
#UkraineInvasion
#UkraineWar
#UkraineRussiaWar
#sanctions
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#Turkey
releases official January
#inflation
at 58%. Istanbul's
#ENAG
inflation research group calculates inflation was 122%
#Macro
#Lira
#Elections
#Erdogan
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PANNIER: 200yrs of
#Russia
#CentralAsia
dominance are over.
#UkraineWar
has broughtgeopolit tectonic shift.5
#stans
assessing other foreign partnr options
#Kremlin
#Putin
#Kazakhstan
#Uzbekistan
#Tajikistan
#Kyrgyzstan
#Turkmenistan
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STOLYPIN: Moscow is not Minsk, but it is in its shadow
@MarkGaleotti
takes a Lenin-refn heavy deep dive into
#Lukashenko
complicated reln with Moscow.
Could Putin live with new democratic leadership? Will Russia annex
#Belarus
?
Read here:
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BEST OF THE WEEK: PANNIER: As Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan descend into another border war, there’s no-one to stop the fighting
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#PANNIER
–
#Gulf
#CentralAsia
deals rival sums once pledged by China. Since Russia lost leverage in region after Ukraine invasion, many countries have sought to fill gap. On scale of pledged
#FDI
Arab nations now big players
#GCC
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PANNIER: Uzbeks, Kyrgyz cooperating to level unthinkable 10 years ago
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
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#Russia
board members are leaving Russian companies in unprecedented numbers following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Steel major Evraz lost all 10 non-executive directors on Friday.
#sanctions
#Ukraine
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The interesting timing of
#Kazakhstan
’s presidential election. Might K-J
#Tokayev
be making his move now while
#Putin
is distracted by
#Ukraine
?
#Russia
#Kremlin
#BloodyJanuary
#Geopolitics
#CentralAsia
#NurSultan
#Almaty
#bne
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Slovenians expect tourism boost from Melania Trump’s American dream
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TOP STORIES THIS WEEK: PANNIER: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are only talking at each other. Another conflict is looming
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bnePODCAST: Update on Ukraine
join us this Tomorrow 5.30pmCET
@MarkGaleotti
- Mark Galeotti
@BlackwellMoscow
-Tom
@bneeditor
while these experts give you an Update on Ukraine.
Zoom:
YouTube:
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Reports say
#Russia
offered
#Uzbekistan
#energy
supply deal but wanted
#Gazprom
to take over country’s
#gas
transmission system. Word of rejected proposal comes as many Uzbeks shiver w/ no gas amid big winter freeze
#EnergyCrisis
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#UN
projects
#Ukraine
’s
#population
will never recover from
#war
#demographics
#emigration
#refugees
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
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#Putin
afraid of causing labour shortage by pointing finger at
#CentralAsia
for
#terrorist
attack says analyst.
#Kyrgyzstan
warning citizens to stay away from Russia.
#Turkmenistan
wants to bring students home.
#Crocus
#IS
-KP
#Tajik
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Opposition MPs set off flares, build chair barricade in Albanian parliament
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#albania
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#PANNIER
– What lies behind rising prominence of
#Tajiks
in
#terrorist
attacks abroad? Loss of hope back home driving individuals to extremism, just as with
#Uzbeks
under dark days of
#Karimov
.
#Tajikistan
#ISKP
#Khorasan
#Rahmon
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#BREAKING
- Gunman storms
#Azerbaijan
#Tehran
embassy, kills head of security.
#Baku
not happy w/ Tehran explanation of events. Video shows attacker breaking into guard post armed w/ Kalashnikov, firing, scuffling
#Iran
#Geopolitics
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#BREAKING
oil tanker transit via Straights of Hormuz suspended.
this is the pinch point at bottom of Gulf thru which half the world's oil passes.
and this is USA worst nightmare..
if confirmed this massively escalates things. for US will be grounds for war
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Tens of thousands displaced as
#Tajikistan
#Kyrgyzstan
conflict rages. 120,000 evacuated from homes in Kyrgyz area where fierce fighting ongoing. Heavy gunfire, shelling exchanges
#Central
Asia
#SCO
#Geopolitics
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Nerudova gains on Pavel and Babis in Czech presidential race.
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#CZECHIA
#CzechPolitics
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BEST OF THE WEEK: Belarus' economy will collapse without Russia's help
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PANNIER:As
#Kyrgyzstan
#Tajikistan
again enter into border war there’s no-one to stop the fighting.Tho
#Russia
has offered to mediate, feeling prevails among some
#Kremlin
supportive of
#Tajik
strongman
#Rahmon
#Dushanbe
#Japarov
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BEST OF THE WEEK: Outgunned Ukrainian soldiers near Bakhmut wait for more Western ammo
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MOSCOW BLOG: Oil sanctions have failed after budget revenues surge as Russia completes the switch from European to Asian markets
#OOTT
#natgas
#bne
#EmergingMarkets
#budget
#trade
#sanctions
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#PANNIER
– New
#Uzbekistan
#constitution
may be worth paper it’s written on. As well as providing more time in office for president, document enshrines some important
#rights
for citizens
#Mirziyoyev
#Tashkent
#Karakalpakstan
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Teneo Intelligence's Brexit spillover thermometer. Has Czech as high risk; Poland, Hungary at medium
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Can spoof Serbian presidential candidate
#beli
really challenge the PM for the top job in tomorrow's elections?
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New research: ‘Third Pole’ permafrost thaw threatens Tajiks, Kyrgyz living on plateau.1/5 buildings+40% railways&roads in danger.UNESCO meanwhile tracks
#Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
#Kazakhstan
glacier melt
#bneGREEN
#ClimateCrisis
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Russia’s economy would be growing faster if it hadn’t spent so much money on military
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Putin’s approval rating ends 2022 at 81%, boosted by support for the war in Ukraine
#bne
#Russia
#Levada
#poll
#EmergingMarkets
#UkraineWar
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Best of the week: Evidence of massive ballot stuffing emerges in Russia's referendum on constitutional changes
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#BREAKING
:
#Gazprom
shares collapse by 97% in London, market cap falls to just $250mn
#ECM
#RTS
#stocks
#equities
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#Russia
#Ukraine
#UkraineInvasion
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Farming was
#Ukraine
’s most profitable business in 2020, outlook for this year is excellent too
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#agriculture
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Ukraine storage reaches 14.7 bcm, enough for winter
#bne
#bneEditorsPicks
#EmergingMarkets
#bneChart
#Ukraine
#ONGT
#natgas
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#PANNIER
-
#Russia
is pushing
#Turkmenistan
out of the natural
#gas
market. Moscow’s moves to take over
#CentralAsia
#pipeline
capacity for China deliveries might explain unusual urgency in Turkmen search for new customers.
#ongt
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#Mongolia
urged to “open door” to Russian Mongols who want return to ancestral roots.Campaign wants compatriots law. It would apply to Russia Buddhist republics peoples &minorities w/ Mongolic origins the world over.
#Ulanbaatar
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Turkmenistan is faced with losing nearly half of its current natural gas sales revenues—and those sales account for more than 80% of state revenues, writes
@BrucePannier
.
#turkmenistan
#russia
#gas
#OOTT
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Two thirds of the new CEE technology companies in this year's Fast 50 are new entries
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#STOLYPIN
: The West’s response to
#Lukashenko
’s migrant gambit might seal
#Belarus
’ fate - via
@markGaleotti
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BEST OF THE WEEK: OPINION: Belgrade’s EuroPride parade was a victory against the Kremlin
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PANNIER:In
#Turkmenistan
, new president maintains course into the abyss. Serdar
#Berdimuhamedov
, the head of state who rarely smiles, has also given his country little reason to do so
#Ashgabat
#Politics
#Dictators
#Gas
#Energy
#bne
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Police brutality becoming more evident in
#Russianprotests
Arrests grtting more and more violent on the edges of now-cleared Pushkin Square:
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Did
#Taliban
take control of
#Uzbekistan
island in border clash?
#Tashkent
working hard for good relatns w/
#Kabul
. Officials stay tightlipped about frontier attacks made by
#Afghanistan
militants
#ISK
#ISKP
#Geopolitics
#Terrorist
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#Mongolia
goes ahead w/
#SoyuzVostok
#pipeline
signing w/ Russia despite
#Ukraine
outcry. Mongolian deputyPM&
#Gazprom
chair Miller hold online meeting for next stage of project to transit Russian
#gas
to China
#Kremlin
#Ulaanbaatar
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