Russia's billionaire car salesman, owner of Rolf to sell up
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Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei blames enemies for protests as several reported dead in escalating unrest
Iran went under virtual martial law as authorities shut down the internet and blocked roads in the capital. There were some reports of shooting on the streets of Tehran.
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TURKEY INSIGHT: Base effect delivers industrial growth after year of decline but official data continues to bewilder
Import compression is over. Officials are turbo-charging GDP. Lira is held in ‘dirty float’. Turks insist inflation is still high. Authorities are telling them they're wrong. Economics anoraks shouldn't miss an episode of the Erdogan experiment.
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From Russia to Ireland: Uralchem’s long fight for its investments
Leading Russian fertiliser producer Uralchem is in a nasty corporate conflict involving one of Russia’s largest chemical plants, Togliattiazot, and its former management that has been running years
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ISTANBUL BLOG: Imamoglu, redeemer of hope for Turks, to debut on global finance stage in London
New phase of the ‘fairytale’ for opposition politician elected mayor of Istanbul with the strategy “Ignore Erdogan and love those who love Erdogan”.
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ESG is a must have in Russia, but adds no alpha
If a Russian company doesn't pay attention to its environmental, social and governance score it will lose investors, but if it does switch to a more sustainable model it won’t earn any real reward.
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Russia's consumer credit driven retail running out of steam, while Ukraine has a boom ahead
The consumer debt profiles of Russia and Ukraine are very different. Russia’s household debt rose to 15.5% of GDP as of the end of 2018 and is just shy of its all time high of 15.6% set in 2014. Ukraine’s household debt has been falling steadily.
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30 YEARS OF TRANSITION: Ground zero and the fall of the wall in Berlin
I’d just arrived in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of the change that had just happened at the time but the reunification of the two Germanys changed everything.
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30 YEARS OF TRANSITION: CEE makes enormous progress but held back by governance issues
If half of the governance gap between Central Europe and the G7 countries was closed, income convergence would be brought forward by almost a generation, says EBRD chief economist Beata Javorcik in an interview with bne IntelliNews.
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30 YEARS OF TRANSITION: The East-West convergence in numbers
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall the new EU members haven’t yet caught up with Western Europe — but they are drawing level with the Southern European states that were battered by the international economic crisis.
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