The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine is currently drafting the aviation strategy and plans to complete it until the end of autumn. “Now we are working on aviation strategy. Soon we will start to promote this process very actively with large consulting companies. I think that by the end of autumn we will have the…
More than 58 million GEL (about $18.80 million or EUR 15.97 million) was brought into the state budget by the sale of state property in the seven months of 2020, the National Agency for State Property reported. The agency noted that according to data for the first two quarters of 2020, the privatization plan was…
Consumer spending has returned to the levels it was a year ago, at least with bankcard payments, according to SEB bank, fueled in part by a rise in spending on entertainment and tourism after a hiatus during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this does not necessarily mean a return to business as usual…
Buying train tickets online in Kazakhstan is temporarily unavailable due to a technical failure, the Kazakh Railaways’ press service reports. The company’s statement says ticket sales via bilet.railways.kz as well as online sources are temporarily not available. The company is slowly resuming work of its ticket offices. (Kazinform/Business World Magazine)
Ukraine’s state-owned banks turned a profit of UAH 16.2 billion in January-June, down by UAH 3.4 billion YoY, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s press service reported. The profit of public sector banks in the first half of 2020 shrank by 17% (UAH 3.4 billion) primarily due to an increase in spending on the formation of banks’…