Over the month, Kyrgyzstan’s national debt grew by $97.71 million. Thus, since the beginning of the year, it has increased by $313.97 million, the Ministry of Finance reported. As of August 31, the state debt was $4,378.71 billion, or 300,764.62 billion soms. $3,984.54 billion (273,690.08 billion soms) is the country’s external debt, and $394.17 million…
The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held an auction on placement of short-term notes of Azerbaijan’s Central Bank (CBA) in the amount of 150 million manats with a maturity of 28 days, BSE said. The demand during the auction once again exceeded supply – banks submitted applications for 431.9 million manats. The entire amount put up…
Kernel, a large agroholding in Ukraine, seeks to invest $130 million in construction of an oilseed crushing plant in Khmelnytsky region. The company said in a press release that the commissioning of the plant was scheduled for 2020. The installed processing capacity of the plant will be 1 million tons of sunflower seeds per year.…
Production of milk in Ukraine in January-September (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, part of the ATO zone) decreased by 0.9% YoY, to 8.109 million tons. According to the State Statistics Service, egg production increased by 1.6%, to 12.117 billion units. Production of meat (live weight) in January-September grew by 0.1%, to…
After the nuclear power plant goes online, Belarus will import electricity if doing so is economically expedient, Belarusian Energy Minister Vladimir Potupchik said during the Belarusian Energy and Ecology Forum on October 11. In basic mode the Belarusian nuclear power plant will generate about 18 billion kWh. It will produce over 40% of the total…
Azerbaijan’s export of fruit and vegetable products increased by 63% in terms of volume in January-September as compared to the same period 2016, said Chairman of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev. Aliyev made the remarks addressing an Azerbaijani-German business forum in Baku on October 11. He noted that during the period, export of plastics…
In January-September the grain terminal JSC Ak Biday Terminal, the subsidiary company of the National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC, shipped 269.1 thousand tons of grains through its grain terminal in the Aktau port, the press-service of the Corporation declared. In January-August JSC Ak Biday Terminal transshipped 193.7 thousand tons of grains. The grain terminal…