Ben Aris in Moscow
Wed, 27th Jan -- Cold War tensions between Europe and Russia will persist as long as the energy infrastructure from that era remains in place. But in the last few months, construction has started or finished on a raft of new pipelines that have already radically changed the make-up of energy politics on the Eurasian land mass.

David O'Byrne in Istanbul
Mon, 25th Jan -- While getting Caspian and Central Asian gas to Europe without crossing Russian soil has proved difficult, that's not because of a shortage of ideas. The latest alternative is a Georgian plan to export Azeri gas across the Black Sea in the form of LNG.

Guy Norton in London
Tue, 26th Jan -- bne's inaugural "Deals of the Year" poll canvassed opinion from issuers, investors and investment banks across the region, and the results clearly show that in the face of challenging market conditions, a wide range of countries, companies and banks were able to triumph over adversity.

Eric Heymann of Deutsche Bank Research
Mon, 25th Jan -- Although the global automotive sector has in recent months emerged from its trough, the expiry of support measures together with the overcapacities in the sector suggest that further difficulties will materialise in 2010 and beyond.

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Thu, 21st Jan -- Long isolated from international markets, Turkmenistan is starting to reform, but it will be several years before it appears on investors' radars.

Guy Norton in London
Tue, 19th Jan -- After 2009's gas war with Ukraine, Russia began 2010 with the opening of a new front in its energy disputes with ex-Soviet states.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Tue, 19th Jan -- It must come as a shock to many foreign investors to discover that Russia-dedicated equity funds crowd out all other funds to take the top four slots as the best performing funds in the world over the last decade, according to fund research and rating agency Morningstar.

Nicholas Watson in Prague
Wed, 20th Jan -- The prospect of being able to develop huge unconventional sources of gas using new technology could well render the decade-long fight for control over the huge pipelines that bring the gas to Europe from Russia and beyond ultimately meaningless.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Mon, 28th Dec -- Kazakhstan's economic performance in 2010 will be closely correlated to international macroeconomic developments and trends in world commodity markets.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Mon, 28th Dec -- Azerbaijan is expected to be the world's fastest growing economy in 2009, according to a report from the EIU.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Mon, 18th Jan -- Prices have at last bottomed out and started to rise again in Kazakhstan's real estate market. For 2010, the forecast is a fragile recovery and the gradual completion of many part-finished construction projects.

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Fri, 18th Dec -- Following on from last year's debut Christmas Tree Index, which seeks to establish a correlation between the height of the municipal Christmas trees put up across Central and Eastern Europe and the state of the local economy, bne releases the results of its 2009 index.