Banks with Russian capital in Ukraine have filed cassation complaints against the Kyiv Court of Appeal ruling to freeze their assets. The Civil Cassation Court of the Supreme Court received respective complaints on September 14. As reported, businessman Ihor Kolomoisky achieved the freeze on the assets of three Russian state-owned banks in Ukraine in order…
Ukraine has attracted powerful investments in the field of renewable energy, agrarian sector and retail trade in recent weeks. “Over the past weeks, Ukraine has attracted large investments in the economy: in the renewable energy sector from Norwegian investors, in the agricultural sector from a Saudi Arabia company, and into retail trade from Swedish brands…
The Lithuanian Finance Ministry has revised upwards its forecasts for the country’s GDP growth this year and next year. The ministry expects the economy to expand by 3.4% in 2018, by 2.9% in 2019 and by 2.5% in 2020. The forecasts are up from the ministry’s estimates of 3.2%, 2.8% and 2.5%, respectively, published in…
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) sees the potential for further reduction of the discount rate, Chairman of the CBA Elman Rustamov declared. Rustamov said the monetary regulator (CBA) this year had done much in this direction. “Nevertheless, external risks have recently intensified, in particular, those related to volatility of the national currencies in a…
Yildirim Holding, a Turkish company, plans to launch soda ash production in Zhambyl region. In December 2017 Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting with Robert Yuksel Yildirim, CEO at Yildirim Holding, at the EXPO Congress Center in Astana. The meeting participants discussed prospects for investment projects in the chemical industry of Kazakhstan. In…
In parallel with late cereals and legumes harvesting Kiev region has begun sugar beet harvesting. As of September 13 in Kiev region agrarians started late cereals, legumes and technical crops harvesting, Kyiv Regional State Administration reported on its Facebook page. That 36.9 thousand tons of sugar beet have been harvested with the average yield of…
Ukraine boosted exports of poultry meat and offal to 184,600 tons January through July, up by 8.9% YoY. Today Ukraine ranks 7th in terms of exports of broiler meat among the countries that sell this product abroad, the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said. The largest importers are Japan,…