In June, retail trade size in Latvia, when compared to the same month of 2019, increased by 4.6%, which was higher than the average in the European Union, according to data compiled and published by Eurostat for 24 member states. When compared to the same month of 2019, a more rapid retail trade growth was…
The Ministry of Economy of Kyrgyzstan has developed a draft resolution on imposing a tax on cryptocurrency mining. The document has been submitted for public discussion. As background statement says, it is proposed to approve a mining tax report form and the procedure for filling and submitting it. An entrepreneur intending to pay the mining…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), Ukraine’s largest air carrier, has announced the revision of its domestic and international flight program for August and cancelled a number of flights until the end of this month. The flight plan is based on the assumption of passengers’ free movement across the borders of the European Union and the Schengen…
In January-June, Ukraine’s electricity imports decreased 30-fold YoY, while exports – 6.8-fold. “Electricity imports in the first half of 2020 decreased from 560 million kWh to 18.9 million kWh. Electricity exports in January-March increased monthly by about 5%. However, the volume of exports fell sharply in April and decreased 6.8-fold as of the end of…
Nur-Sultan mayor Altay Kulginov has inspected the construction site of the mosque that will be the largest mosque in the country and Central Asia. The country’s largest mosque, which is under conduction, sits between Kabanbay batyr and Mangilik El Avenues. After construction, the mosque will be able to receive 30 thousand people at once and…
As the emergency situation in the country was lifted, the share of employees working remotely reduced. In June, a total of 15.5% or 117.1 thousand of employees aged 15-74 years worked remotely, down by 2.7% or by 18.8 thousand MoM. 70% of women and 30% of men were working remotely. In June, one fifth of…
Construction of a 70-bed hospital for treatment of infectious diseases has begun in Naryn, the Republican Emergency Response Center reports. Since there was no building suitable for re-profiling into a hospital in Naryn, it was decided to build a new one. It will be built on the territory of the Naryn Regional Combined Hospital. “Construction…