Azerbaijan’s GDP exceeded 23.8 billion manats in January-April that is 2.1% more than in January-April 2018, the State Statistical Committee reported. The volume of GDP per capita stood at 2,411.8 manats. Some 46.5% of Azerbaijan’s GDP accounted for industrial sphere, 5.9% – for construction, and 3.1% – for agriculture, forestry and fishery. Net taxes on…
From June Kazakhstan’s Air Astana will expand its Nur-Sultan-Istanbul service from current five to six flights a week. It will fly A320 aircraft, the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee’s press service reports. Besides, from the beginning of July Turkish Airlines is set to raise its flights from Nur-Sultan to Istanbul from existing five to seven flights…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is ready to nationalize PrivatBank a second time if a court rules to annul a respective decision of 2016, First Deputy NBU Governor Kateryna Rozhkova has said. Rozhkova said reversing the nationalization would reverse the mechanism by which the state handed the bank UAH 155 billion ($5.88 billion) to…
The Finance Ministry of Ukraine attracted UAH 3.964 billion to the state budget as a result of the sale of government domestic loan bonds on May 14, according to the ministry’s website. “As a result of the scheduled placement of government domestic loan bonds, the state budget was replenished with UAH 3,963,805,692.70 (at the exchange…
According to the information published by Statistics Estonia on May 15, in the first quarter of 2019, the labor force participation rate in Estonia was 70.8%, the employment rate 67.5% and the unemployment rate 4.7%. While the labor force participation rate and employment rate remained steady, the unemployment rate decreased by 2.1% YoY. In the…
U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) distances from Latvian Finance and Capital Market Commission’s (FCMC) statement regarding the coordinated liquidation model for ABLV Bank, as noted by the US Embassy in Latvia. FCMC had previously reported that after meeting with representatives from FinCEN the committee saw no obstacles for the execution of FCMC’s…
The information security management system of Air Astana JSC has been certified to be compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard. The certificate of compliance was presented to Air Astana JSC in April. After several years of ground work on policies, procedures, documents and systems the certification process started in October 2017 having contracted with Kazakhstan…