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Hundreds of Turkish medical company bosses and workers throw keys to ground in unpaid debts demo
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SCO leaders tell West to bite bullet and hand billions to Taliban
With Afghanistan on brink of humanitarian and economic hell, it might be that only access to capital frozen abroad can stop the country becoming an incurable narco-state that is a hive of terrorism.
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MITTELEUROPEAN INSIGHTS: Hungary's surprise debt issuance demonstrates the EU's financial whip is not working
Hungary's big return to the international bond market shows it is expecting a lengthy spat with the EU but it also makes financial sense.
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BALKAN BLOG: Bulgaria’s Harvard-educated saviours-in-waiting
The interim government’s success in rooting out corruption turned its ministers into national heroes. Now two of the top technocrats are running for parliament.
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LONG READ: Russia's hybrid Duma elections
Russia goes to the polls this weekend to vote in a new Duma. There is little doubt that the ruling United Russia will win a majority. The elections are fixed. But in many regions the elections are fair and those are the smart voting targets.
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bneGREEN: Global coal plans collapse by 76%
The global pipeline of proposed coal power plants has collapsed by 76% since the Paris Agreement in 2015, bringing the end of new coal power construction into sight, new research by green think-tank E3G finds.
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SPB Exchange driving Russia's retail equity investment revolution
Russia is going through a retail investment revolution. Plunging interest rates at bank deposits – long the favoured store of wealth for the average person – have led to a boom in Russians investing into equities.
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Russia’s Communist Party to get a Navalny smart voting bump in the Duma elections
Russia’s Communist Party is likely to get a big bump in this weekend's Duma election after opposition activists Team Navalny threw its weight behind most of its candidates as part of its “smart voting” strategy.
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INTERVIEW: Benjamin Roll, Czech protest leader
Million Moments chairman says his protest movement is ready to take centre stage again as Prime Minister Andrej Babis chases re-election next month.
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Black soldier fly start-up Entoprotech starts first funding round
Bugs can become big business. Entoprotech, an Israeli biotech start-up has raised $2mn to develop its black soldier fly (BSF) to process organic waste that will reduce methane emissions from landfills and create animal feed as a byproduct.
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