President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko says he expects that the average inflation in 2017 will not fall below a 10% mark. “Inflation, the burden of high prices is what people care about the most. I hope that this year it will be measured by a simple number below ten. Our joint task until 2019 –…
The ceremony to launch the Garlyk mining and processing factory is scheduled to take place on March 31. Chairman of Belarus’ Council of the Republic Mikhail Myasnikovich and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Ereshov discussed the plans in Ashgabat. The meeting was held as part of the working visit of Mikhail Myasnikovich to Turkmenistan…
Tajik civil aviation authorities propose Russia’s Yamal Airlines to operate flights out of Zhukovsky Airport to the Tajik southern city of Kulob instead of Dushanbe. Tajik authorities have sent an appropriate letter to the Russia air company, an official source at the Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan reported. “The Russian side is currently considering our…
Air Astana and Lufthansa enhanced their cooperation with the signing of a code share agreement, Air Astana press service reported. The code share agreement is valid on Air Astana’s flights between Astana and Frankfurt and Lufthansa’s flights from Frankfurt to Almaty and Astana with effect from March 26. The agreement allows for increased choice for…
In January Azerbaijan increased wheat import 3.4-fold YoY, to 58.7 million tons, the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan reported. According to the statistics data, the general cost of imported wheat to the country totaled $10.857 million (up 3.2 times). Also, in the reporting period Azerbaijan imported 1.426 thousand tons of vegetable oils…
Belarusians pay as much as 72% of the prime cost of electricity, Mikhail Malashenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Standardization Committee, Director of the Committee’s Energy Effectiveness Department, declared. “At present the population pays 72% of the prime cost of electricity and 17% of the prime cost of heating energy,” noted Mikhail Malashenko. In his…
The direct work on implementation of the Dushanbe-Qurghon Teppa road rehabilitation project will start only after it is endorsed by Tajik parliament. Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) must ratify a finance agreement concluded between the government of Tajikistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ADB Board of Directors has approved $65.2 million in loan…