Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has long been dubbed “Europe’s last dictator”. The epithet is not entirely true, not least as Vladimir Putin in...
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Belarus first held a presidential election 26 years ago. Since then, an entire generation of Belarusians has grown up knowing just one president, reading schoolbooks...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) have agreed to set up a repo line arrangement to provide euro liquidity to Hungarian...
The coronavirus pandemic will push fiscal financing needs in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Black Sea region to record high levels in 2020, according...
Central Europe Poland will return to economic growth in 2021, around 4-4.5 per cent, Finance Minister Tadeusz Koscinski said on Thursday. The ministry is in no rush to...
One of Georgia’s two largest banks, TBC, last month announced plans to open a subsidiary – JSCB TBC Bank – in Uzbekistan. The announcement comes as TBC...
The Covid-19 pandemic is not just a global public health crisis. It has huge implications for democracies and fundamental rights around the world. Some governments are...
Fake handbags, fake watches and – increasingly – fake electronics are a common sight at flea markets across the world. The goods, often of dubious quality...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Sovereigns in emerging Europe will record unprecedentedly sharp falls in economic growth in 2Q20, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings, which says that measures...
Central Europe Google will invest as much as two billion US dollars in a data centre in Poland to deal with cloud services, the Puls Biznesu daily said on Wednesday...
