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Coronacrisis boosts e-commerce in North Macedonia as shopping habits change
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Lufthansa to launch a first class "Corona Lounge" in Moscow to immunise rich Germans
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COLCHIS: Georgia is in crisis, but it’s far from the end of democracy
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COMMENT: Why critics are asking if Inner Mongolia is the next Tibet or Xinjiang
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Russia’s coronavirus epidemic in retreat
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Romania: Demography, labour force and pandemic
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CAUCASUS BLOG: Armenia’s day of crisis delivers anticlimax
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Ikea opens first store in Slovenia with low key, socially distanced launch
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Romanian IT company Bittnet enters FTSE Russell indices
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<H2> Move comes after open letter demanding he quit was published by head of general staff of the armed forces. </H2> |
<H2> Vice-president Jourova says Hungary and Poland could soon have EU budget money withheld if they continue to violate rule of law. </H2> |
<H2> Corrupt political kingpin finally goes to jail for bribery and money laundering after court battle lasting 12 years. </H2> |
<H2> Government bows to pressure from hospitality industry and hopes for pre-election feelgood boost just as a new wave of the virus gathers force.
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<H2> Revenues for the state budget from the sale of the entire 5G frequency spectrum could "easily" exceed €720mn, regulator said. </H2> |
<H2> Romania will now have four companies in the FTSE Russell indices following its upgrade to secondary emerging market status last year. </H2> |
<H2> MoU to help North Macedonia increase its resilience to cyber threats. </H2> |
<H2> Virtual studio developer Zero Density placed second while online streaming platform BluTV ranked third. </H2> |
<H2> The Photomath app has more than 220mn downloads globally, helping students and parents solve maths problems using a smartphone. </H2> |
<H2> It was just a matter of time before we saw a serious impact on the Hungarian labour market from the second wave of Covid-19. The January data suggests a slump in growth in the first quarter, despite the latest upside surprise in wages.
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<H2> What next in Georgia following the turmoil in recent days that has seen the PM quit, the leader of the opposition grabbed by security forces and Irakli Garibashvili, who is refusing to hold a snap election, made the new head of government? </H2> |
<H2> There seems to be no stopping oil prices, with ICE Brent now trading well above $60/bbl. Clearly OPEC+ cuts are doing their job, while global recovery hopes are playing a big part. Will the oil price keep rising? </H2> |
<H2> Romania's 2021 budget plans could hardly have been more ambitious after being constrained by the high share of rigid spending in the last few years </H2> |
<H2> Poland's central bank has just released balance of payments data for December and posted a moderate €0.4bn current account surplus,. That translates to a record-high GDP surplus of 3.6% for 2020 as a whole </H2> |
<H2> Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trust rating improved by 3 percentage points to 32%, while that of jailed anti-corruption activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny fell by one point to 4% in between December 2020 and February 2021. </H2> |
<H2> Public indebtedness increased amid the government's efforts to support the private sector and address the health crisis.
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<H2> Research by Sarajevo-based Center for Policy and Governance shows high levels of undeclared and partially work in Western Balkans and Croatia. </H2> |
<H2> In January 2021 retailers reported sales of BNY4.2bn ($1.7bn), which accounted for 99.1% of retail sales in January 2020 in comparable prices, according to National Statistics Committee, as cited by the state-owned BelTA.
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<H2> The central bank expects inflation to remain low and stable — as it has been for the last eight years — as the country recovers from the coronacrisis. </H2> |
<H2> The mine used to be President Japarov's cause célèbre, but these days he has to be more pragmatic. </H2> |
<H2> Foreign investors piled into Ukrainian local debt when the market was hooked up to the international capital markets in April 2019. Then they fled in 2020. But with the recovery underway bond investors are back, approaching previous highs already. </H2> |
<H2> Different retirement ages for men and women lead to lower pensions for women despite reforms in 2019-2020, says World Bank report.
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<H2> Copper prices have been soaring as the post-coronavirus recovery gets under way, pushing up commodity prices, but copper has been supercharged by the digitisation of the global economy and the rise of the electric vehicle (EV) industry. </H2> |
<H2> Russian giant, now sixth largest taxpayer in Central Asian country, has stepped up its cooperation with Tashkent. </H2> |
<H2> The president's sudden buck-passing to specialists is a little anxiety-inducing, since it may indicate something is wrong.
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<H2> Populist liberal leader Juri Ratas will try to plot a comeback from behind the scenes, analysts believe. </H2> |
<H2> The authorities have ignored a spike in depression and anxiety among Bulgarian children and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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<H2> The European Union and new Biden administration have opened talks on the “what to do about Russia?” question and new sanctions are expected, but the question remains over what exactly can the Western allies do?
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<H2> Moscow delivered a stern rebuke over Bulgaria's PM's criticism of opposition politician Navalny's arrest, and has taken a tough tone on several issues in the Western Balkans in recent days. </H2> |
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