Tajikistan: Communications Service building design wins 5-star Asia Pacific Property Award

Tajikistan’s Communications Service building design has won the five-star Asia Pacific Property Award 2017 for the Best Commercial High-rise Architecture. The building design has been worked out by the design office of Tajik Architects’ Union. The design authors are chief architect Bahrom Yusupov and architects K. Naimov, R. Sharipov and H. Ayubjonov. Yusupov says the…

Ukraine: deputy PM cuts growth forecast

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv cut the government’s 2017 economic growth forecast to 1.8% from 3%, citing a trade blockade with separatist-held territories as one of the drivers for the revision. The new forecast is just below the central bank’s revised prediction of 1.9%. Kubiv said growth for 2018 would likely climb to 3%,…

Azerbaijan: consolidation of two banks completed

The process of consolidation of two Azerbaijani banks – AtaBank and Caspian Development Bank – has been completed, Chairman of AtaBank’s Management Board Dayanat Guliyev said on June 1. Guliyev noted that as a result of the consolidation, sufficient financial reserves were formed and the bank’s capital position had been strengthened. According to him, as…