Ukraine exported 18 million tons of wheat in 2021-2022 MY. It has 15 million tons of wheat left in the country, declared Mykola Gorbachev the president of Ukrainian Grain Association on March 15. “Minus 4 million tons Ukraine consumes per year, and we still have stocks sufficient for 3 years. Even if we do not…
Due to the war in Ukraine, JSC Daugavpils Lokomotivju remonta rupnica (DLRR) will be forced to lay off at least 300 workers. On top of that, in the future there is a possibility of freezing or shutting down operations entirely, according to DLRR representatives. The company notes that since the end of February, DLRR’s financial…
Lithuania has so far supplied 29 million euro-worth of military assistance to Ukraine, according to MP Laurynas Kasciunas, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense. “Lithuania has provided military aid worth a total of 29 million euros, which, basically, equals to 40 HGVs, and in absolute terms, we are among the top-10…
About 1.2 million Georgian citizens aged 15 and above made 1.4 million monthly visits within the country in 2021 with a total expenditures amounting to 226 million GEL ($70 million or EUR 63.7 million), the latest data published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) showed. In 2021, the monthly average number of domestic…
The Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE) ruled that the Finance Ministry would supplement the volume of the government’s intervention fund for 2022 with a sum of 25 million lei at the expense humanitarian donations accumulated in the treasury account opened to support the Ukrainian nation. As much as 21.3 million lei of this money will…
The Lithuanian president has hit at the government for “sluggishness” in addressing inflation. The president’s office even commissioned a poll, suggesting that nine out of ten Lithuanians believe the authorities are not doing enough. President Gitanas Nauseda’s office shared the results of the opinion poll by Baltijos Tyrimai on March 16. 53% of respondents said…
A total of 10.9 million GEL ($3.3 million or EUR 3 million) was spent on hotel service expenditures across Georgia between the pandemic outbreak and March 1 for using the spaces for quarantine The information, provided by the Georgian National Tourism Administration, also showed up to 198,007 people were provided with hotel services before the…