President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree “On measures for further simplification of the system of micro-lending to businesses and the wider population”, aimed at ensuring broad access to preferential micro-loans. The decree provides for the introduction of a simplified mechanism for granting micro-loans to newly registered individual entrepreneurs (IE) and family business entities (FBE) without…
Clothing for children and adolescents in the Eurasian Economic Union will become safer. Corresponding amendments to the technical regulations of the union were approved by the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission. It is noted that tougher requirements for the quality of fabrics used for making children’s clothes have been set. In particular, the division…
The sale of Alfa-Bank Ukraine is not being planned, one of the bank’s major shareholders Petr Aven declared. “We are not preparing to sell,” Aven said, adding that Alfa-Bank currently had a “normal working relationship” with the National Bank of Ukraine. Earlier, the director of strategic communication of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Denis Kazvan said that after…
The State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) and China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) have begun working on a joint project for the construction of a road bypassing the city of Kremenchuk with a bridge across the River Dnipro, Ukravtodor posted on its official Facebook page. “On March 21, the Memorandum of Cooperation between the…
Belarus has imposed temporary restrictions on the import deliveries of live pigs, pork and derived products from Kherson region due to the outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF). This has been said in a relevant order of March 17, published on the website of the Department of Veterinary and Food Control at the Ministry of…
As of March 1, the registered carry-over stocks of grains and pulses in Kazakhstan totaled 11.735 million tons, the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported on March 21. In particular, peasant and farming households stored 2.483 million tons of grains. Wheat formed the major share of the…
Global Finance, an English-language international financial magazine, has named ASB Belarusbank the best bank on the Belarusian market for the fifth time. The information is posted on the website of the magazine. Global Finance magazine announced its annual awards for the World’s Best Banks last week. Among the honorees for Central and Eastern Europe it…