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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Hungary’s Fidesz pulls out of EPP before it is expelled
The latest issue of bne IntelliNews flagship monthly magazine is out! Cover story is on Russian timber company’s Segezha rapid growth, but the magazine is packed with news and features from...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Sanctions risk on Russia is over-priced
I did a podcast/webinar yesterday with Evghenia Sleptsova, senior economist for Russia and the CIS at Oxford Economics, and Elina Ribakova, deputy chief economist with the Institute of International...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Kazakhstan announces discovery of largest reservoir of hydrocarbons since independence
Kazakhstan has announced that it has made a new find of the biggest oil field it has discovered since independence in the country’s oil-rich Mangystau region. It seems that peak-oil has been...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Russia's paper and pulp company Segezha is tapping Russia's Green Gold
We have something of an ESG theme at the top of the list today. I start with a profile of Segezha, Russia’s biggest paper, pulp and packaging firm that plans to IPO soon, after I talked to the...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Armenian PM takes to streets claiming military coup under way
There is revolution on the streets of Yerevan again. Well, almost. The country was plunged into a near crisis after the military demanded that Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian step down...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Lufthansa to launch a First Class Corona Lounge in Moscow to immunise rich Germans
bne IntelliNews has gone a bit tabloid today with two scoops. In the first bne IntelliNews contributor Jason Corcoran reports that German national carrier Lufthansa is in the process of setting up a...
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Spring is here! At least it is in Western Europe. Eastern Europe remains in the grips of a brutal winter and the snow is still piled high in...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Police grab Georgia’s opposition leader after storming barricaded party offices
Georgia was plunged into a full blown political crisis yesterday after police stormed the barricaded officers of opposition leader Nika Melia and arrested him using batons and tear gas on supporters...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Mongolia's pitiless dzud
It's an important day today as EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels and are likely to impose an initial round of sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the jailing of anti-corruption...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Russian message service Telegram hopes to raise $1bn with a convertible bond private placement
I couldn't decide what to lead with today: Telegram to raise $1bn with a convertible bond or the political crisis that broke out in Georgia after a court ordered the arrest of the leader of the...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people rises across Europe and Central Asia
There has been a “stark rise” in abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people in the Europe and Central Asia region, including from politicians, says a new report from the International...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Ukraine and Lithuania imported record amounts of power from Belarus, but move to break ties with its power grid
Top story today is the kerfuffle surrounding Belarus’ Ostrovets nuclear power plant. Russia built and financed Ostrovets, which produces far more power than Belarus needs. President Alexander...