The delivery of German Boxer infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Lithuania is running behind schedule due to faults identified during the quality control process. The first two Boxers were delivered to Lithuania last June. Another 15 IFVs were due to have arrived by the end of 2019. However, the vehicles have not reached Lithuania yet.…
Kazakhstan has suspended the Bek Air Company’s flights, the press service of the Kazakh Industry and Infrastructure Ministry reports. The Bek Air plane en route Almaty-Nur-Sultan carrying 95 passengers and 5 crewmembers disappeared from radar screens. It crashed shortly after take-off leaving at least 12 people dead. The President expressed his condolences to the friends…
Vinnytsia region has completed sugar-refining season with the lowest figures in four years. In total, six refineries produced 331 thousand tons of sugar, down by 93 thousand tons YoY. Even with such a significant decline, the region remains the leader in sugar production in comparison with other beet-growing areas of the country. This spring the…
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Kryklii has stated that the ministry intends to increase the share of low cost airlines in the Ukrainian aviation market to 45% in 2020 and to 63% in consecutive years. “We will make every effort so that air travel for Ukrainians to become as common as travel by bus or train,”…
Kazakhstan has come to an arrangement with the Russian oil transport company Transneft on oil deliveries to Belarus, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Askar Beisenbayev declared during a press conference held on December 26 on the occasion of Kazakhstan Independence Day. The diplomat said: “There is an agreement that once all the…
Air company Thai Air Asia X has started direct charter flights from Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand to Tbilisi, TAV Georgia has announced. The first flight was carried out on December 25. Five charter flights will be carried out by an Airbus 330 type aircraft until January 2, 2020. Air company will carry out…
Bishkek’s revenues will amount to 10,098,148 billion soms in 2020, draft capital’s budget says. It is planned to be approved at a session of the Bishkek City Council. The revenue side will reportedly grow by 1,559,525.5 billion soms. In 2020 it is planned to collect taxes for 8,195,983 billion soms, up by 676,753,000 soms YoY.…