Tajikistan investment portfolio includes 70 projects totaling $2.84 billion

Tajikistan’s investment portfolio now includes 70 projects totaling 22.3 billion somoni (equivalent to $2.84 billion), according to the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest). Tajikistan’s investment portfolio, in particular, includes 31 grant-based projects, 18 loan-based projects and 21 mixed-finance projects. Total volume of grant financing has reportedly amounted to 9.8 billion somoni…

Kazakhstan: trade companies’ revenues up

Revenues of Kazakhstan’s trade companies from main activity increased up to 2.8 trillion Kazakh tenges in Q1 2016, as compared to 2.1 trillion tenges in the same period of 2015. Tenge’s devaluation gave a certain support to this process. Revenues of Kazakhstan’s small enterprises from main activity increased by 824 billion tenges in Q1 YoY,…

Russia: fighter jets on high alert for flight exercises

Russia’s MiG-31BM and Su-27 fighter jets have been put on alert for tactical flight exercises in the Tver Oblast in the country’s west, the Western Military District said. The fighters’ crews will perform tasks of intercepting aircraft violating the state border, electronic launches against cruise missiles and strategic bombers of the simulated enemy. (Russian Aviation/Business…