Western countries including the U.S. and U.K.

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Moscow’s displeasure with Ankara is trickling into Central Asia, but to varying degrees in each capital.

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As of January 1st, the Kazakh government will have the power to spy on virtually any internet user in the country.

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Moscow and Astana have agreed the terms of Russia’s use of a Kazakh radio communications center as part of Russia’s ballistic missile early warning system, media reports said on Saturday.

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Most social media marketers will tell you that video marketing is their priority in 2016. In 2014, global mobile video traffic grew by 55% and we can expect to see a similar statistics for 2015 as December wraps. Video marketing is no longer a “nice-to-have”. Over the course of a couple of years, this content medium has become a “must-have” and brands need to adapt. We at Simply Measured have felt similar pressures to adopt the video medium and have seen an increasing demand via Twitter, Facebo

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What did you do in 2015 to make sure that your business stayed one step ahead of the competition?

Did you manage to spot the upcoming trends and leverage them whilst they were still in their infancy, or were you late to the party – minesweeping the scraps left by your more forward-thinking peers? Did you spot that great new social platform and get your business up and running on it, or were you fooled into thinking that Ello really was going to be the next big thing?

Whether you got it right or wrong in 2015, let’s look back at some of the biggest developments in digital marketing, and why we expect them to expand even further into 2016….

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Here comes an emerging markets bull.According to Credit Suisse, currency weakness and declining profit margins underpinned emerging markets’ underperformance in the last five years.

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As Brazil’s economy shrinks, and the energy aspirations of Turkey and Russia are laid bare in the Middle East, J.P. Morgan offers 10 themes to watch in emerging markets for 2016. READ MORE>>

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In a new report, Fitch Ratings notes that many emerging market crises have been preceded by a surge in debt.And that is exactly what has happened in the private sector across some of the largest emerging markets over the past decade.

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Recent patent filings by online retailer, reseller and auction mega-site eBay have pundits guessing at whether the company intends to take its offerings into the brick-and-mortar space in the coming months and years.

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