The Board of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan kept the refinancing rate at the level of 9% APR. The regulator said that the Board of the Central Bank adopted the decision on keeping the refinancing rate at 9% APR. The Central Bank said that the decision was adopted based on tasks, determined in main direction…
Belarusian laser technologies will be used for research projects of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet), Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Sergei Kilin said. On July 18 Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov and ICRANet Director…
Belarusian companies should step up efforts to advance cooperation with Chinese partners, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Kirill Rudy said. The Ambassador believes that it is essential to build production chains with Chinese partners. Speaking about the inflow of Chinese investments to Belarus, Ambassador Kirill Rudy said about the preparation of amendments…
Basic foods grew in price in Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Economy reported. Bread has risen in price by 0.19 soms (1.05%), rice – by 1.77 soms (2.33%), beef – by 0.92 soms (0.33%), sugar – by 1.54 som (2.94%), vegetable oil – by 0.19 soms (0.21%), potatoes – by 4.93 som (34.71%), beans – by…
ATB Financial, the largest Alberta-based financial institution, has collaborated with SAP SE, financial technology start-up Ripple Labs Inc. and ReiseBank AG in Germany to send the first real international blockchain payment from Canada to Germany. bitcoin news at DC Forecasts reports that ATB successfully transferred CA$1,000 (667 euro) to ReiseBank using a network built on…
Assets of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) increased by 4.6% and amounted to $35.1 billion as of July 1, as compared to $33.57 billion in early 2016, SOFAZ said in a report. SOFAZ’s revenues totaled almost four billion Azerbaijani manats during the H1 2016, and expenditures were almost at 2.256 billion manats. During…
The Council of Ministers has approved an agreement on the formation of indicative (forecast) balances of gas, oil and oil products in the Eurasian Economic Union which was signed in Moscow on April 22. This is envisaged in the corresponding resolution No. 553 of July 14, the press service of the Belarusian government informed. The…