In January-April the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine decreased by 0.3% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported. In particular, agricultural enterprises lowered the production indices by 0.6%, while households of the population increased them by 0.1%. In 2016 the growth of agricultural production totaled more than 6%. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Russia’s Yamal Airlines is expected to start operating flights to Tajikistan from Zhukovsky Airport from July 1. According to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) of Tajikistan, Yamal Airlines will conduct three weekly flights to Dushanbe and three weekly flights to Khujand. An official source at a MoT said that they had coordinated the issue of…
Belarus has imposed a temporary restriction on the import of live poultry and hatching eggs from Tatarstan due to the outbreak of avian flu. A temporary restriction on the import of products from Tatarstan to Belarus has been introduced from May 17. It applies to live birds, hatching eggs, wild, zoo and circus susceptible animals,…
In 2016, the volume of electricity produced in combined heat and power plants kept increasing and accounted for 3,767.4 gigawatt hours (GWh), which constitutes 59% of the total volume of electricity generated in Latvia. Compared to 2015, last year the volume of electricity produced in CHP plants grew by 7%, and the volume of heat…
According to initial estimates, in January-March Belarus’ gross domestic product totaled Br30.6 billion, up by 0.5% in comparable prices as against the same period a year earlier, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported. In January-April the GDP deflator index amounted to 106.9% as against the same period of last year. (BelTA/Business World Magazine)
A loan agreement for 131.3 million Saudi riyals, equivalent to $35 million, has been signed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between the government of Tajikistan, represented by Abdusalom Qurboniyon, Minister of Finance, and the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by Yousef Ibrahim Al-Bassam, Vice President & Managing Director, The Saudi Fund for Development.…
Railway freight traffic in Ukraine from 2011 to 2016 decreased by 27%, Deputy Director General of state enterprise Ukrpromzovnishekspertyza Serhiy Povazhniuk has said. According to him, the volume of rail freight traffic began declining in 2012 due to the stagnation of industry. The rate of decline accelerated in 2014-2015 after the annexation of Crimea and…