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…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) due to the blockade of trade with the certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the improvement of situation on foreign markets has revised macro indicators for 2017 and 2018, in particular, worsening the forecast for the growth of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for 2017 from…
According to preliminary information, Ukraine exported 840 KMT of wheat in February that is basically comparable with its exports in the same month last year (855 KMT). In total, the country supplied 13.56 MMT of wheat to foreign markets in the first eight months of the current season, or 14.5% more than at the same…