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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Turkmenistan claims population jump but compelling evidence points to slump
Lying becomes habitual for dictatorships (and populists), and the power to make big or even small lies with impunity also becomes a weapon that demoralises opponents and disciplines supporters, by...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Putin will not attend BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa reveals
Russian President Vladimir Putin has saved the embarrassment of his South African host Cyril Ramaphosa by agreeing to send Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his place to the upcoming BRICS summit in...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Economic storm blows Erdogan westward
As should have been expected, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a grab for international attention at Nato’s Vilnius Summit by announcing a “surprise” concession to approve...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Traffic across Crimean Bridge halted after overnight strike
Ukraine appears to have once again targeted the Crimean Bridge across the Kerch Strait, which is both a vital transport corridor between Russia’s Krasnodar Region with Crimea and a symbol of...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Drought threatens new spike in food prices
Amid the current heat wave in Europe and other regions, as well as the continuing war in Ukraine, attention is once again turning to the outlook for food prices, particularly of grain...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Urals price hits $60 price cap level for first time
Oil price cap...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- No concrete timeline for Ukraine’s Nato membership given at Vilnius summit
Ukraine left in...
Erdogan gives green light to Sweden’s accession to Nato
Nato...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev is seeking to renew his reform mandate in snap elections
Uzbekistan...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – New Uzbekistan: development, innovation and enlightenment
bne IntelliNews’ editor in chief Ben Aris has been in Uzbekistan all this week, assessing the situation on the ground ahead of this Sunday’s early presidential...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Balkans lift otherwise gloomy Emerging Europe outlook for 2023
Southeast Europe is set to experience the fastest economic growth within the broader Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe (CESEE) region in 2023, according to the latest set of forecasts from the...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Ukraine’s slow but steady southern offensive grinds on
Dispatch from the...