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BUZZ-Top FTSE losers show beginnings of EM pain

** Three biggest losers on FTSE 100 in afternoon trade very different businesses, but all connected by emerging market exposure

** Coca Cola HBC Burberry and Aberdeen lead index lower as blowout in Russian ruble raises fears of 1998-style currency crisis that could spread to other emerging markets

** Coca Cola (NYSE: KO - news) 's bottling co falls as much as 4.6 pct to fresh all-time lows since listing in London in April 2013, shares down as much as 16.2 pct in last five trading days

** Co derived 47 pct of 2013 revenues from emerging countries, according to Thomson Reuters data

** Burberry and Aberdeen both have heavy Asian exposure, have both outstripped FTSE sell off that began on Dec 5

(RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : alasdair.pal.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)