According to market participants, 1158 KMT of barley was exported from Ukraine in August, or slightly less than a year ago (1192 KMT was shipped abroad in August 2016). Barley exports from the country totaled 1973 KMT in the first two months of the 2017-2018 season, or 10.5% less than a year ago (2204 KMT…
Terve Pere Apteek OU, which operates a chain of pharmacies under the Apotheka brand, has been ordered by the State Agency of Medicines to stop dispensing medicine at its pharmacy location on the premises of North Estonia Medical Center (PERH) in Tallinn. The State Agency of Medicines has forbidden the pharmacy situated in Estonia’s largest…
Iranian investors are keen to launch a meat-processing project in eastern Kazakhstan. Akim (governor) of the region Danial Akhmetov met with top management of the Kazakh-Iranian company Agro Portal LLP in order to discuss all aspects of the new project and its launch in the nearest future. The new meat-processing enterprise will be built on…
The charges for public utilities, namely, natural gas, electricity and water, will be introduced in Turkmenistan. Speaking at a meeting of the Council of Elders of Turkmenistan on October 9, the president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov stressed that after the country gained independence, the population consumed natural gas, drinking water, electricity and salt free of charge. The…
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) raised 100 million manatsat a deposit auction, the CBA said on October 9. The CBA was ready to receive 456.3 million manats from banks, and therefore, the demand exceeded supply almost 4.6-fold. The weighted average interest rate on deposit transactions at the auction was 10.01%. The CBA started holding…
Belarus’ GDP will increase by 1.7% in 2017, Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said. “I think that the GDP goal will be reached this year and we will close 2017 with an increase of 1.7%,” the vice premier said. In his words, the GDP growth made up 1.5% in January-August. Industrial production went up…
More than 266,000 passengers used the services of Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport in September, up by 24% YoY. The number of passengers served by the airport during the first nine months of the year was greater by more than 300,000, or by 18%, than during the same period last year. Tallinn Airport crossed the 2…