Finance Ministry estimates debt repayments in the fourth quarter of 2019 at UAH 80.3 billion, or $3.3 billion at the official forex rate. According to the state debt payment schedule, repayments on Ukraine’s state debt as of October 1, including those on internal and external debt in October, total UAH 25.18 billion ($1 billion) and…
A regulation for procurements could help standardize and centralize them using ministries involved, for example, said Latvian Economy Minister Ralfs Nemiro. The minister described his idea using the purchase of a school bus as an example. It is not the same as a municipality purchasing one of two buses. Instead the procurement is performed by…
The state budget of Kyrgyzstan for 2018 was executed with a deficit of 6,453 billion soms with a planned deficit of 12,606 billion soms, department of the Committee on Budget and Finances of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan reports. At least 23 billion soms have been spent on servicing external and internal debts. Securities for 9…
Rice, tobacco and sugar beets harvesting continues in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Agriculture reported. To date, slightly over 7,734 tons of rice have been harvested in Azerbaijan. This year 504 enterprises planted 4,038 hectares of rice. So far the harvesting has been carried out on the territory of 2,586 hectares. The average yield was 30…
Ukraine imported 181,100 tons of bananas in the first eight months of 2019, up by 14% YoYd. In the first eight months Ukraine imported 181,100 tons of bananas worth a total of $102.3 million. These figures are record-high for at least the last five years. Compared to the same period of 2018, the total amount…
The Luhansk Regional State Administration says two bus stops will be set up in the village of Stanytsia Luhanska between the entry-exit checkpoint and the bridge over the Siversky Donets River. “The first one will be located near a local office of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) building, while the second one…
Unemployment rate dropped in Armenia by 2.6% in the second quarter of 2019, compared to the same period of 2018, amounting to 17.7%, the Statistical Committee reported. The number of unemployed people comprised 207.2 thousand in the second quarter of 2019, against the 236.4 thousand people in the second quarter of 2018. The unemployment rate…