Kazakhstan: 19,137 foreigners employed

19,137 foreign nationals are working in Kazakhstan to date, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Kazinform reports. 753 of them (4%) are the first category workers (senior executives and their deputies); 4,363 (23%) are working as second category employees (heads of structural divisions); 9,613 (50%) are the third category employees (specialists); 1,749…

Ukraine: $1.16 billon in remittances received from abroad in 2019 via PrivatBank’s services

Ukraine’s largest state-owned PrivatBank said Ukrainians in 2019 received $1.16 billion from abroad via money remittance systems through the banks’ services. In particular, major money transfers to Ukraine via PrivatBank arrived from the United States ($194 million), Israel ($169 million), Italy ($107 million), Russia ($97 million) and Poland ($73 million), the bank’s press service reported.…

Uzbekistan: electricity imports from Turkmenistan temporarily reduced

Turkmenistan’s electricity exports to Uzbekistan decreased 13-fold on February 21, Uzbekistan National Power Networks LLC reported. On February 21, an accident occurred in the power system of Turkmenistan between the substations “Mary” and “Serdar”. As a result, electricity supplies from Turkmenistan fell from 780 megawatts to 60 megawatts. Due to the malfunction of the power…