Ernest Airlines intends to start flying from Kyiv to Naples and Bergamo from Kyiv and to Naples, Venice and Bergamo from Lviv in 2017. The airline said on its website that Kyiv-Naples flights would be serviced from December 9, Kyiv-Bergamo from December 4, Lviv-Bergamo from October 20, and Lviv-Venice and Lviv-Naples from December 8. The…
Linda Line, which operates the high-speed catamaran Karolin between Tallinn and Helsinki, has canceled all September 4 departures from both capital cities due to bad weather conditions on the Gulf of Finland. Linda Line, which operates under the Linda Line Express brand, has a policy of canceling departures due to conditions involving wind speeds in…
The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) faction in parliament has called on the government to increase the minimum wage to UAH 4,000 (about $150). The chairman of the BPP faction, Artur Herasymov, said this at a meeting of the parliament’s conciliatory council on September 4. “We are appealing to the government regarding a further increase…
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met with Ahmet Calik, head of the Turkish construction company Gap Insaat. Calik informed the president on the progress of construction of a gas chemical plant for urea production in the Garabogaz city of Balkan region. A large-scale production will be conducted at the plant for deep processing of natural gas…
Latvian and Lithuanian trade union leaders visiting Estonia last week were given an in-depth overview by Estonian colleagues of employees’ issues related to the creation of Luminor, a new Baltic bank, by the merger of the Baltic operations of DNB and Nordea. “Since we will have a Baltic bank in the new Luminor Bank, its…
Belarus plans to crop nearly 10 million tons of grain in 2017, Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats said. “It will be some 10 million tons of bread,” Leonid Zayats said about the 2017 harvest. The minister added that it was a difficult year for the agrarians and there was no confidence in such…
Kyrgyzstanis will pay for 1 cubic meter of natural gas 14.39 soms in September, Gazprom Kyrgyzstan LLC reported. The cost of fuel remained the same as in August. Industrial enterprises, commercial structures and budget organizations will pay 17.64 soms, including VAT and sales tax, without taking into account sales tax – 17.49 soms. The tariff…