The Russian Satellite Communications Company, a federal satellite operator, has failed to insure all communications space apparatuses of the Express series, as the market’s health is close to critical, Alexander Podchufarov, vice president of insurance company Ingosstrakh, said. “The state of the insurance market is close to critical; only the Russian space industry had $662…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of October 6, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout nearly 15 million ha, or 97.7% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 22.643 million tons of grains, up by 4.962 million tons YoY. The average…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said the Cabinet of Ministers plans to approve the starting price of Odessa port-side chemical plant proposed by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF). “We are now looking forward to proposals from the State Property Fund for the next round of the sale of the object. I believe…
Short-term rains observed last week did not replenish soil moisture stocks considerably and moistened only the upper soil layer. The situation is better in the 10-cm soil layer and sowing campaign is coming to the end in quite good conditions. Plants sown in the first half of September are at the stage of first-third leave…
Regulation of prices for bread in Ukraine leads to the minimum marginality of bakeries work, the General Director and Chairman of the Board at the association Ukrhlibprom Alexander Vasilchenko declared. He informed that the ratio of prices for flour and bread in Ukraine totals 0.3 EUR/kg and 0.35 EUR/kg respectively, whereas in Poland the flour…
Ukrainian farmers continue harvesting sunflower. As of October 3, nearly 3900.4 thousand ha had been threshed, or 66% of the intended area (5916.2 thousand ha), up by 1.6% YoY (3838 thousand ha). 8382.6 KMT had been obtained with the average productivity of 2.15 MT/ha (in 2015 – 7975 KMT; 2.08 MT/ha). Soybean had been threshed…
Hungary’s Wizz Air, the largest low cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced the launch of a new route from Kyiv to Bratislava (Slovakia). According to a press release of the airline, the new flights will be serviced from December 17, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The tickets can be bought…