The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) fined JSC European Industrial Bank, JSC Megabank, JSC Radabank JSC and JSC Oschadbank in November for the violation of legislation in the field of financial monitoring, the NBU’s press service has reported. “The National Bank of Ukraine, following the results of inspections on preventing and combating the legalization (laundering)…
Azerbaijan is weighing measures to further develop tourism potential of its Naftalan city, famous for crude oil spas that has health-giving properties. Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Azerbaijan Tourism Board Bahruz Asgarov has said that a plan to develop Naftalan’s tourism has been already worked out and will be implemented in 2020. Addressing the…
In the first half of 2019 growth in export of Armenian wines was noticed compared to the same period of 2018, Director of the Vine and Wine Foundation of Armenia Zaruhi Muradyan said. This year various programs were implemented aimed at raising awareness on and exporting the Armenian wines. In 2019 the Armenian wines were…
Every year each household in Latvia spends 200 and more euros on food that ends up thrown away, as concluded in a research performed by Environment Protection and Regional Development Ministry. Aside from food, people also throw away packaging, which makes it impossible to recycle. In December the ministry commenced a special initiative “Thrown out,…
The Pension Fund of Ukraine has started to finance pensions for December, the fund’s press service has reported. “On December 2 the Pension Fund of Ukraine started to finance pensions in accordance with the established schedule,” reads the report. The sum worth UAH 603.2 million was allocated for pension payments. (Ukrinform/Business World Magazine)