In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Zafar Azimi, the deputy head of the Accounts Chamber of Tajikistan, revealed that financial harm cost the country some 224 million somoni (equivalent to some $30 million) in 2016. “530 inspections conducted by the Accounts Chamber auditors last year revealed some 224 million somoni worth…
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Resolution “On Additional Measures for Improvement of Wage, Pensions, Welfare Benefits and Stipend Payment Mechanisms.” The resolution outlines unprecedented steps to secure the rights and interests of pensioners, students and other socially vulnerable groups, who will now have fewer hurdles in paying for goods and services across Uzbekistan. The resolution…
Loan rates for farmers will be reduced in Kyrgyzstan in 2017, the head of the Kyrgyz government Sooronbay Jeenbekov announced. Loans for the treatment and processing of agricultural products, export-oriented agricultural production will be issued at 6% per annum for three years. Compared to 2016, the rate has been reduced by 4%. It stipulates for…
Construction of Balykchy – Korumdu road was suspended in Kyrgyzstan, Long Hai Company employees informed. About hundred workers of the company organized a rally. The main requirement was to pay salaries for three months. Parliamentary commission headed by deputy from Kyrgyzstan faction Kanatbek Isaev went to Issyk-Kul region. However, MPs abandoned the trip halfway and…
The state-run enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority in 2017 is scheduled to hold dredging works at seaports at the total area of about 20 million cubic meters, including capital dredging. Newly appointed acting head of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority Raivis Veckagans announced this during a meeting with dredging companies in the American Chamber of…
Ukrainian crushers continue picking up the pace of sunseed processing in the current season of 2016/2017. Sunoil output has been hitting new monthly highs for a fourth month in a row. Ukraine’s large and medium-sized crushers produced an unprecedented 558 KMT of sunoil in December 2016 compared with 529 KMT in November 2016 and 363…
In January-November of 2016 Kyrgyzstan decreased foreign trade turnover with the member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) by 16.7%, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov declared. The foreign trade turnover with the EAEU totaled $1.744 billion. In January-November 2016 the import supplies reached $3.62 billion, down by 0.1%. Imports reduced, due to lowering…