Passengers will be able to pay seasonal ticket fares for Tbilisi public transport using their bankcards starting from September 1, Mayor Kakha Kaladze has announced. Kaladze said city authorities had reached agreement with two major banks in the country, TBC Bank and Bank of Georgia, enabling their customers to integrate their travel passes into the…
Lithuania’s decision to give up nuclear energy “was a big mistake”, the country’s Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys said on August 16. Closing the Ignalina nuclear power plant in northeastern Lithuania “was a mistake made by all of us”, Kreivys told a joint meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs and the Commission for Energy…
The leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA), together with officials of the National Food Safety Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration had a meeting yesterday with Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Chisinau Oleg Vasnetsov. The parties exchanged views on the decision of the Federal Veterinary and…
Lithuania is launching five training courses for Ukrainian military personnel, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on August 16. “We are starting five training courses for Ukrainians in August,” he said. The courses will be designed for specialists, rather than recruits, to better improve the skills of the Ukrainian military in using Western weapons, Anusauskas said.…
Over the past week, 271 preferential loans for the total amount of UAH 1.21 billion were issued within the framework of the State Program Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%, including 250 credit agreements to the tune of UAH 939.9 million concluded by banks of the public sector of the economy. Since the start of the program,…
Last week, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $521.69 million on the interbank foreign exchange market. The relevant data were posted on the NBU’s website. In particular, following the foreign exchange interventions, between August 8 and August 12, the NBU acquired $93.4 million and sold $521.69 million on the interbank foreign exchange market. In…
The Georgian Government will subsidise the 2022 grape harvest due to the “record-high grape yield”, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced at a Government meeting. Garibashvili pledged “not a single kilogram of grapes will be left behind” in accepting produce from farmers, and added the Government would provide “maximum support” to about 25,000 of them…