Kazakhstan: trade companies’ revenues up

Revenues of Kazakhstan’s trade companies from main activity increased up to 2.8 trillion Kazakh tenges in Q1 2016, as compared to 2.1 trillion tenges in the same period of 2015. Tenge’s devaluation gave a certain support to this process. Revenues of Kazakhstan’s small enterprises from main activity increased by 824 billion tenges in Q1 YoY,…

Russia: fighter jets on high alert for flight exercises

Russia’s MiG-31BM and Su-27 fighter jets have been put on alert for tactical flight exercises in the Tver Oblast in the country’s west, the Western Military District said. The fighters’ crews will perform tasks of intercepting aircraft violating the state border, electronic launches against cruise missiles and strategic bombers of the simulated enemy. (Russian Aviation/Business…

Tajikistan: construction of municipal vehicles assembly plant to start in Dushanbe

Construction of a joint Russian-Tajik enterprise for assembling Russian-made municipal vehicles will start in Dushanbe in the near future, Ravshan Tuichizoda, the deputy director-general of the State Unitary Enterprise “Khojagii Manziliyu Kommunali” (the central governmental agency responsible for water supply and wastewater services), said. According to him, specialists from the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) developed…