Situation in the food and processing industry was discussed at a session of SDPK parliamentary faction. Deputy Agriculture Minister Erkin Chodoev reported that 250,000 tons of meat are produced annually in Kyrgyzstan. 971 tons of meat are exported. Nevertheless, Kyrgyzstan continues to purchase meat products. At present, the main suppliers are Kazakhstan and Russia. Some…
Kazakhstan will launch several international flights in 2018, the Civil Aviation Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development said. In 2018 foreign airlines, including Air Baltic, Emirates, Fly Dubai, Aeroflot and Angara plan to launch regular Riga-Almaty, Dubai-Almaty, Dubai-Aktau, Moscow-Kyzylorda and Krasnoyarsk-Almaty flights. Besides, Finnair will resume the Astana-Helsinki flights, the Committee said.…
The state enterprise Artyomsol (Donetsk region) has launched the production of purified food salt, according to a press release issued by the company. To obtain premium quality salt according to the state standard 3583:2015, the process of photoseparation was integrated into the existing technology, which allowed removing dark inclusions of natural origin (anhydrides) from rock…
Mutual trade between Ukraine and Germany in 2017 grew by 21.5% YoY, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has reported after a meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman with representatives of leading German companies operating in Ukraine. “Last year the volume of mutual trade grew by 21.5%, and trade focus…
The development of the route network from Astana is facing the risk of losing foreign airlines which may reduce flights to Kazakhstan, Ibrahim Canliel , Chief Financial Officer at Air Astana said at a press conference on January18. “Over the past years, many airlines like Austrian Airlines, Asiana, KLM have canceled their flights to Astana,…
The Bank of Estonia has come up with a plan to reduce the use of 1-cent and 2-cent coins before eventually removing them from circulation. The central bank floated a proposal at the tax environment forum to discuss how to start rounding off cent values at vendors up and down to the nearest 5 cent-rounded…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Belkommunmash has won a tender to sell ten modern low-floor trams for fast tramlines to the Russian city of Volgograd, representatives of the embassy of Belarus in Russia reported. The contract with the Volgograd city administration will be signed soon. It will stipulate the schedule for delivering the trams to…