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bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Sizzling tensions with China pose new threat to Lithuania’s food exports, rail freight sector
China has been working hard to extend its influence in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe in recent years, and its financial firepower and willingness to invest into energy and infrastructure...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Kyrgyz security services claim enough evidence to press on with removal of Centerra from Kumtor gold mine
Kyrgyz Kumtor saga moves to end...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Harsh US sanctions on Belaruskali to have limited impact due to loophole
Belarus...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- UK and US impose harsh new sanctions on Belarus targeting potash, oil and banning investments into primary debt issues
Belarusian sanctions...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks -- Belarusians hold solidarity demonstrations on the first anniversary of the disputed presidential elections
Belarus one year on...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Hardline cleric Raisi sworn in as Iran’s president
Iran’s new...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Georgia’s Western honeymoon – coming to an end?
Georgia on my...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Iranian-backed forces suspected of seizing tanker in Gulf of Oman
Short list today. It’s August and for once the month might live up to its reputation for being quiet. But more often than not there is some huge crisis in August, so we are not holding our...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Exiled Belarusian House activist who disappeared found hanged in woods in Kyiv
Death of an activist...
bne IntelliNews Editor's Picks – Turkey evacuates thousands of tourists amid hellish wildfire scenes
Weather...
The EU finally gets tough with Hungary and Poland
Our top story today is a blog on the relationship between Central Europe’s so-called ‘illiberal democracies’, Poland and Hungary, and the European Commission. For years now the...
Buckle up, August is coming
August, the month to relax and take a holiday, is rarely relaxing in Russia. As Chris Weafer of consultancy Macro-Advisory writes in his now traditional Russia in August piece for us, past experience...