bne IntelliNews publishes business news from Eastern Europe, Eurasia, MENA and Africa - offers premium newswire and data products for financial professionals 2020-09-08T16:03:06+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer http://www.intellinews.com/ bne IntelliNews info@intellinews.com http://www.intellinews.com/

The war between the population of Belarus and entrenched President Alexander Lukashenko took a new turn on September 8 as the journalists' big guns were brought up to the front in the disinformation war that is gathering momentum. ]]>

2020-09-08T14:34:25+00:00 2020-09-08T14:34:25+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/belarus-battle-of-the-journalists-191419/ Ben Aris in Berlin

A British diplomat named as the incoming new commercial attaché at the UK Embassy in Tehran was on September 7 accused of being a spy by Tasnim News ...]]>

2020-09-08T13:22:34+00:00 2020-09-08T13:22:34+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/iran-labels-incoming-uk-commercial-attach-as-spy-191407/ bne IntelIiNews

Belarus’ largest food retailer Eurotorg brushed off the coronacrisis and put in a decent set of results for the first half of this year that showed only a small decline in revenues in dollar terms, but an increase in local currency terms.]]>

2020-09-08T13:04:43+00:00 2020-09-08T13:04:43+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/belarus-top-supermarket-eurotorg-brushes-off-the-coronacrisis-with-revenues-down-only-2-in-dollar-terms-in-1h20-191406/ Ben Aris in Berlin

Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova sparked an angry reaction from Belgrade when she mocked President Aleksandar Vucic's visit to the White House in a Facebook post. ]]>

2020-09-08T10:44:44+00:00 2020-09-08T10:44:44+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/anger-in-belgrade-over-russian-official-s-basic-instinct-post-191405/ bne IntelliNews

Are countries in the Balkan region taking on more debt than they can afford? ]]>

2020-09-08T09:47:43+00:00 2020-09-08T09:47:43+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/the-balkans-external-debts-in-uncertain-times-191402/ Alexandru M. Tanase in London

“This is terror at the state level. Stalin's KGB methods in action. National Coordination Council leaders are being abducted by masked men. By night, then they end up either in prison or in neighbouring countries," tweets local journalist.]]>

2020-09-08T08:28:47+00:00 2020-09-08T08:28:47+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/breaking-belarus-authorities-try-to-forcibly-expel-kolesnikova-who-rips-up-passport-and-is-detained-at-ukraine-border-191400/ Ben Aris in Berlin

Opposition leaders Maria Kolesnikova, Anton Radniankou and Ivan Kravcov all went missing on September 7, assumed snatched by security services. Police say they have mounted a hunt for Kolesnikova. ]]>

2020-09-08T05:53:01+00:00 2020-09-08T05:53:01+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/belarusian-opposition-leader-maria-kolesnikova-listed-as-missing-person-191398/ Ben Aris in Berlin

Belarus’ faked presidential election shows how quickly a domestic problem can become international and geopolitical. Moscow looks set to force Minsk into a “Rublezone” deal that will tie their economies much closer together. ]]>

2020-09-08T05:26:15+00:00 2020-09-08T05:26:15+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/mitteleuropean-insights-belarus-out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-rublezone-191390/ Gunter Deuber Head of Research at Raiffeisen Bank International and Marcus How Head of Research & Analysis at ViennEast Consulting in Vienna

Astana Hub hoping political unrest could tempt some specialists into coming their way. ]]>

2020-09-07T22:49:06+00:00 2020-09-07T22:49:06+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/kazakhstan-headhunts-belarusian-it-developers-in-vain-so-far-191376/ Almaz Kumenov for Eurasianet

The main TEDPIX index has lately fallen back from 2mn to 1.6mn points but some investors think new shares could complete a W-shape rebound.]]>

2020-09-07T20:22:32+00:00 2020-09-07T20:22:32+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/250-companies-in-queue-for-tehran-ipo-191313/ bne IntelIiNews

Construction of two 318m-high towers has been completed on the 1915 Canakkale Bridge in Turkey, set to be the longest suspension bridge in the world ...]]>

2020-09-07T18:47:51+00:00 2020-09-07T18:47:51+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/construction-of-towers-on-turkey-s-planned-world-s-longest-suspension-bridge-completed-191358/ bne IntelIiNews

Belarus’ hard currency reserves fell by $1.4bn to $7.46bn as of September 1, down some 16% from $8.8bn (including gold) just before the current protests began in early August, according to National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB). ]]>

2020-09-07T14:50:40+00:00 2020-09-07T14:50:40+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/belarus-is-bleeding-money-as-reserves-fall-1-4bn-in-a-month-191316/ bne IntelliNews

Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry has opened a special web portal for Belarusian IT specialists who want to move to Ukraine and has hired Denis Aleinikov, who helped set up the famous IT park in Minsk]]>

2020-09-07T13:51:41+00:00 2020-09-07T13:51:41+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/ukraine-aims-to-recruit-belarus-it-workers-191330/ bne IntelliNews

The Constitutional Court declared illegal a 2015 presidential decree appointing Artem Sytnyk as the first (and so far, only) director of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine]]>

2020-09-07T09:47:38+00:00 2020-09-07T09:47:38+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/fpri-bmb-ukraine-the-battle-for-control-over-nabu-191311/ bne IntelliNews

Reports on social media describe her as abducted and bundled into a van in central Minsk on the morning of September 7, apparently picked up by police. ]]>

2020-09-07T09:29:54+00:00 2020-09-07T09:29:54+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/updated-maria-kolesnikova-and-two-colleagues-go-missing-191310/ Ben Aris in Belrin

At least 100,000 Belarusians took to the streets of Minsk again on Sunday, September 6 for the weekly mass demonstration against Belarus' self-appointed President Alexander Lukashenko under the slogan “all for one and one for all"]]>

2020-09-07T04:51:58+00:00 2020-09-07T04:51:58+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/lukashenko-unleashes-the-titushki-as-the-people-unmask-the-omon-191282/ Ben Aris in Berlin

2020-09-06T20:21:48+00:00 2020-09-06T20:21:48+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/russia-denies-interfering-in-montenegrin-election-191279/ bne IntelliNews

Protesters buy thousands of toys from Hippoland chain whose owner Marian Kolev was hit by tax and competition probes immediately after he criticised police for pepper-spraying his 17-year-old son. ]]>

2020-09-06T09:23:05+00:00 2020-09-06T09:23:05+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/bulgarian-protesters-go-toy-shopping-to-support-local-businessmen-targeted-by-authorities-191242/ Denitsa Koseva in Sofia

The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has for the first time stated that he is actively seeking to pay a debt owed to Iran for the non-delivery of ...]]>

2020-09-05T20:45:07+00:00 2020-09-05T20:45:07+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/hopes-rise-for-release-of-british-dual-nationals-jailed-in-iran-as-uk-defence-secretary-acknowledges-chieftain-debt-191243/ bne IntelIiNews

Nevertheless, one analyst holds that the Kremlin “sees growing discontent” with dictator of three decades Emomali Rahmon and “probably understands that very soon he will be unable to prevent a social explosion”. ]]>

2020-09-05T00:26:48+00:00 2020-09-05T00:26:48+00:00 http://www.intellinews.com/the-tajik-election-stick-not-twist-for-moscow-191081/ Nizom Khodjayev in Bishkek