Russian retailers have sharply reduced the opening of home-based stores. By the end of 2025, the appearance of new retail outlets within walking distance slowed down by six times – this is the maximum drop since 2017, according to a study by Infoline. According to “Kommersant”, one of the key reasons was the decline in…
This year, Vinnytsia plans to install four more cogeneration units with a total capacity of 10 MW. This was reported by Andrii Ocheretnyi, deputy mayor of Vinnytsia. He noted that after the full-scale Russian invasion, the Vinnytsiamiskteploenergo municipal enterprise received cogeneration units on a grant basis, in particular from USAID, which provided electricity to city…
Consumer prices in Latvia increased by 0.2% in February compared with January, while annual inflation fell to 2.3%, down from 2.9% a month earlier, according to data released by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. At the same time, the average consumer price level over the past 12 months rose by 3.6% compared with the…
The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) has highlighted a troubling disparity in Bulgaria’s dairy sector: consumers face some of the highest prices for dairy products in the European Union, while local producers and processors struggle to survive. On March 10, the CPC convened a meeting in Plovdiv with dairy producers and processors from…
A Polish Pendolino high-speed train has begun running in the Czech Republic for the first time. The development is part of a certification process that could allow Polish long-distance operator PKP Intercity to deploy the trains on international routes in the future. The train started operating between the Czech capital of Prague and the town…
In two months of 2026, local budgets received more than 85 billion hryvnias in taxes. Compared to January-February 2025, revenues increased by 13.9%. This was reported on her Facebook page by the Acting Head of the State Tax Service, Lesya Karnaukh. “The positive dynamics persist despite the military challenges facing the country. Local budgets are…
As of the beginning of March, Ukrainian citizens have already filed more than 46 thousand declarations on property status and income. In total, UAH 32.4 billion of income received in 2025 was declared. According to the results of the declaration, citizens have determined UAH 716 million in personal income tax and military levy to be…