The 2021 state budget bill has passed its second reading at the Riigikogu. The bill puts state budget expenditures at EUR 13 billion and revenues at EUR 11 billion and is based also on Ministry of Finance forecasts for Estonia’s GDP to rise by 4.5% in 2021, having been projected to fall by 5.5% this…
Ukroboronprom, Ukraine’s state-owned defense concern, has released a public appeal to the President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denysh Shmyhal, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, and Rada Defense Committee Chair Oleksandr Zavitnevych, voicing “concern regarding the curtailment of Ukraine’s defense industry reform and interference into its economic activities by the Ministry of Strategic…
The draft resolution on approving new regulations on railway safety management system has been published on the website of the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine. The project envisages the introduction of a European-style railway traffic management system; approval of methodological recommendations for building a traffic safety management system at the enterprise; introduction of obligatory procedures for…
On November 16, within the framework of the Kazakhstan-Canada Business Council, a meeting of the Working Group in the field of energy and natural resources was held. The event was attended by about 160 participants from two countries. In their speeches, Vice Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources S. Brekeshev and Vice Minister of…
The heads of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan will send a joint request to attract funds to the US Financial Corporation for International Development and other international financial institutions for the construction of the Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul railway. This follows from the decree of Uzbekistan’s president on expanding economic cooperation with Afghanistan. According to the decree, in December,…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine hosted negotiations between Uzbek Republican Commodity Exchange (UzEX) delegation and Ukrainian agricultural producers of sugar, sunflower oil, flour, grain, meat and other goods in order to discuss supplies to the Republic of Uzbekistan. Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Senik took part in the meeting organized within the…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has advised banks to close on non-working days their branches located in large shopping centers and buildings that are closed during a weekend lockdown, NBU Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko has said on Facebook. He stressed that the central bank had not imposed any restrictions on the work of financial institutions…