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By bne IntelliNews Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has strongly criticised British politicians for “targeting Albanians” as scapegoats for the UK’s crime and border problems. Rama made the comment on Twitter after repeated criticisms of Albanian migra…

By bne IntelIiNews “The chickens are coming home to roost” when it comes to Turkey’s “unorthodox” and “contrary” economic policy and this autumn’s refinancing round for Turkish banks, GlobalCapital wrote on November 1. One Turkish lender expects a thir…

By bne IntelliNews The Serbian army shot down a drone moving from the direction of Kopaonik to Raska, near the border with Kosovo, the defence ministry announced on November 2. The information came after Serbian officials said that unmarked drones had …

By Dominic Culverwell in Berlin Russia has reversed its recent threats and will resume the Black Sea grain deal just days after suspending its involvement following a strike on its fleet in Crimea. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu informed his Tu…

By bne IntelliNews Unmarked drones were spotted on the territory of Serbia entering from the direction of Kosovo, raising tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, officials in Belgrade told local media on November 2. The Serbian army is ready to respond…

By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw Polish CPI grew 17.9% y/y in October, in line with consensus, a flash estimate from Poland’s statistical office GUS showed on October 31 (chart). The reading added 0.7pp to September’s growth, taking Poland’s inflation closer…

The extreme sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine have thrown Russian business into chaos. In the space of a week products and inputs that are essential for production simply stopped arriving even if they were not on one of the sanc…

By Neil Hauer on the Kherson/Mykolaiv front Even hotly contested frontlines in the world’s current biggest war have their downtime. For southern Ukraine, that time is now. After months of fierce battles, the line of contact between Ukrainian and Russia…

By bne IntelIiNews Tehran will this week put on public mass trials, with officials having charged around 1,000 people in connection with the anti-regime protests that have swept the country for more than six weeks, according to Iran’s chief prosecutor….

By Michael Kohn in Ulaanbaatar Plans devised by Mongolia’s government to partly privatise the frontier market’s stock exchange have been years in the making. The head of the exchange now says that plan could finally be realised within months and, if su…