Ukraine and Slovenia have agreed to resume direct flights between Kyiv and Ljubljana, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “Discussing cooperation in the field of transport, we’ve agreed to resume direct flights between Kyiv and Ljubljana”, he reported after talks with Slovenian President Borut Pahor. The Ukrainian president said this would contribute to deepening cooperation…
CHS Ukraine plans in 2017 for the first time to import carbamide in the amount of 200,000 tons. “We’re trying to trade in fertilizers. In spring we would like to purchase 200,000 tons of carbamide”, company CEO Viacheslav Kolosvetov reported. According to him, the matter concerns possible cooperation with Russia’s Uralchem. Kolosvetov added large agricultural…
Deposit auctions will be enough to absorb excessive liquidity of the banking sector in the foreseeable future, Central Bank First Deputy Chairwoman Ksenia Yudayeva reported. “It will be enough for us to hold deposit auctions in the foreseeable future (to absorb excessive liquidity)”, Yudayeva said. The authority organized the first deposit auction in 18 months…
Ukrainian 2016/2017 grain exports could be 7 million tons lower than originally expected due to logistical difficulties and some companies have already redirected shipments from Ukraine to other countries, traders said. Ukraine had planned to ship abroad around 41 million tons of grain in the 2016/2017 July-June season versus around 39 million tons a season…
Belarusian food products are in demand on all the markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Minister Vladimir Koltovich reported. “Foreign partners like Belarusian products. Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs know that the Belarusian quality is high, and our products are welcome on all the CIS markets”, the minister stressed.…
China has proposed to establish Ukrainian-Chinese free trade area. Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei said this during an opening ceremony of Ukraine Silk Road International Forum held in Kyiv. “The Chinese side has proposed to create the Russian-Chinese free trade zone. We hope to intensify a research on this issue with the Ukrainian side”,…
Late October and early November featured a temperature upturn in Bulgaria. The temperature increase against the background of sufficient topsoil moisture reserves caused winter crops to resume their active growth. Exceptions are some parts of South Bulgaria where soil moisture shortages hamper development of winter cereals and rape. Plants of winter wheat and barley seeded…