The Deposit Guarantee Fund has completed payments to the depositors of PJSC Commercial Bank Standard, according to the Fund’s press service. “On May 15, the authorized person of the Deposit Guarantee Fund for the liquidation of PJSC Commercial Bank Standard submitted documents to the state registrar of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs and public organizations to…
According to the initial schedule for the planned Rail Baltica railway, which is expected to have been completed by 2026, high-speed trains will depart Tallinn for points south four times per day, reaching Central Riga in one hour and 42 minutes at a cost of EUR 38 per ticket. Once the railway has been completed,…
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…