Nibulon is going to invest in Ukrainian river transport no less than $300 million, general director of Nibulon Andrey Vadatursky announced. Strategic plans of Nibulon in internal water transport include construction of 5 new river transshipping terminals and a further construction of transport ships for internal and mixed routes (in 2016 8 new ships will…
Such decision was made by Ukrainian parliament. The moratorium for purchasing and selling of agricultural land or for other way of land alienation will remain effective until further regulations on the governmental level are adopted, but no earlier than January 1, 2018. Adoption of decision on land issue had not been expected to be put…
Microsoft has added Russian to the list of languages supported by Skype Translator in simultaneous interpreting of video calls and its other products on the basis of the Microsoft Translator platform, the U.S. company said in a statement. “The inclusion of Russian into the catalogue of Skype Translator is a result of multi-year research and…
Lipetsk Region of the Russian Federation is interested in expanding food supplies from Belarus. Cooperation prospects in the area were discussed during the official visit of the delegation from Lipetsk region led by Deputy Head of the Administration Andrei Kozoderov to Belarus on October 3-6. The delegation of Lipetsk region got familiar with the Belarusian…
A record-high grain and other crops harvest has been gathered in Kazakhstan this year, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Kairat Aituganov said. The gross grain harvest amounted to 23.1 million tons in bunker weight, up 1.4 times YoY. The average yield totaled 15.2 hundredweights per hectare. Of that amount, 5.7 million tons of grain was harvested…
In January-August Russia exported 13.967 million tons of wheat and meslin valued at $2.366 billion, the Federal Customs Service of Russia declared. According to the announcement, the major volumes of wheat were traditionally shipped to far abroad foreign countries – 13.278 million tons ($2.25 billion). In the reporting period, wheat import volumes to Russia totaled…
Germany’s credit institution KfW is providing a EUR 150 million loan for implementation of a project to reconstruct substations in eastern Ukraine. The individual loan agreement between Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers and KfW was signed at the ninth meeting of the Ukraine-Germany high-level group on economic cooperation. Eva Witt, KfW Director for Eastern Europe, Caucasus…