Azerbaijan: Mahan Air to launch flights to Baku

Iranian Mahan Air airline will launch regular flights on Tehran-Baku-Tehran route from October 31, press service of Heydar Aliyev International Airport reported. Azerbaijan State Civil Aviation Administration issued the relevant permission after receiving a request from the airline to perform flights three times a week. Flights are scheduled three times a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays…

Indonesia to buy Russian-made helicopters

Jakarta plans to purchase Russian-made helicopters in order to use them in the province of West Java in particular, Indonesia’s ambassador to Russia Wahid Supriyadi said. “We would like to purchase helicopters from Russia. There are many islands in West Java, so the helicopters are in great demand there”, the ambassador said at a meeting…

Azerbaijan: electricity output down in January-September 2016

Power plants of the Azerenergy JSC, Azerbaijan’s main electricity producer, generated 16.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in January-September as compared to 16.8 billion kilowatt hours generated in the same period of 2015. Azerenergy’s power plants produced about 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in September. In 2015, Azerenergy produced more than 22.5 billion kilowatt…

China: list of Russian grain exporters and storages approved

China has approved a list of Russian wheat, corn, rice, soy and rapeseed exporters and grain storage facilities, Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight said in a statement. According to the document, China allowed imports from about 200 companies from the Omsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Amur, Sakhalin, Kemerovo, Zabaikalsky, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Primorsky regions…

Belarus: Belavia ends scheduled Tu-154M operations

Belavia has withdrawn its last two active Tu-154Ms from scheduled passenger service as of October 1. The type’s last regular flight was Minsk National-Gomel. The Belarus national carrier said the trijet would be used for charter flights ferrying workers to Belarus’s north. These services will continue until late December following which the aircraft will be…