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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T05:30:00.000Z",
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    "Business & Investment",
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    "Turkmenistan",
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  "textContent": "Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. Gul Hassan, the Taliban’s ambassador in Moscow, spent the first days of June 2026 working the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Almost a year earlier, on July 3, 2025, he […]\n\nBad company was originally published on Emerging Europe.",
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