The GDP growth in the second quarter of this year was 1.3%, whereas it amounted to 0.1% in the first quarter. The First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv said this at the Cabinet’s meeting. “We saw the growth of GDP by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2016…
Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight is concerned with the fact that Egypt ignores existing problems regarding violations in fruit and vegetable supplies. Egypt has ignored a necessity to take urgent phytosanitary measures after the Russian service reported about four quarantine cases with citrus fruit supplies from Egypt at the end of the…
Russia will finish construction of its part of a railroad bridge across the Amur River to China in mid-2018, the Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov reported. China has already finished its part of the bridge. The project should have been implemented in 2017, but the new term is 2018, Sokolov said. The project was moved from…
Matua Island, which is a part of the Kuril Archipelago, will be used for logistics purposes, the president of the Russian Geographic Society Sergey Shoigu said, adding that a pier would be built there. “We are to answer a number of specific questions, and we are to do so this year. We plan to resume…
The Russian government may introduce a new taxation regime for the oil sector, or a tax on added income, this year, but it will be applied only from 2018, according to the protocol of a recent meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The new tax will substitute existing tax incentives on some fields…
As of September 12, winter grains had been sown at 7404.8 thousand ha, 42.7% of the plan (17.35 million ha). On the same date of 2015 sowing had been carried out at 6741.7 thousand ha. In Ural federal district winter sowing was carried out at 94% – at 63.9 thousand ha, in Privolzhsky – at…
On September 6-12, the seaports of Krasnodar Krai (Yeysk, Taman, Kavkaz, and Novorossiysk) shipped for exports 28 vessels with grains and by-products, at the volume of more than 511 thousand tons, including 21 vessels with wheat – over 407 thousand tons, the territorial administration of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) in…