The Russian government may shuffle off part of the oil tax burden on consumers by raising excise duties on fuel, according to the results of a recent meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The Finance Ministry initially offered to raise the rate of the Mineral Extraction Tax (MET) on oil in 2017 by…
Russian power holding Inter RAO is interested in buying assets in Latin America or Southeast Asia, Ilnar Mirsiyapov, a member of the management board, said. Inter RAO wants to acquire a significant stake of a market, Mirsiyapov said after naming countries of Latin America and Southeast Asia as markets which the company saw interesting for…
Rosinterbank, included in Russia’s 100 largest banks in terms of assets, has completely stopped providing services to its clients, the bank said. “Individual and corporate clients will not be serviced at Rosinterbank’s offices and branches starting from September 15, in order to stabilize the bank’s financial performance”, the bank’s statement said. A source reported that…
The government of the Russian Federation posted the draft decree by the Ministry of Agriculture on zeroing of the wheat export duties from September 15, at the common web-portal of legal information disclosure. According to the explanatory note, to date the reporting duties do not actually have any regulatory impact. At the same time, the…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has named the main vectors of the country’s socio-economic development which will be taken into account in the draft 2017 state budget. The president noted that the country would continue the reforms on the integrated diversified economic development. These reforms envisage the implementation of major investment projects of international and regional…
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second review of Ukraine’s implementation of an economic program backed by the Extended Fund Facility and approved of the disbursement of a third tranche worth SDR 716.11 million, or about $1 billion, the IMF said in a statement. “This brings total disbursements under the…
The Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) has started developing a versatile amphibious platform for light, extra light and heavy vehicles operational with the Airborne Force, the Airborne Force’s press office said. “The Airborne Force and top specialists of the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University have started jointly developing…