920.1 thousand people or 65.3% of Latvia population aged 15-74 were employed in Q3. Over the year, employment rate grew by 1.7% and number of employed persons by 17.2 thousand. Compared to the previous quarter, employment rate grew by 0.9% and number of employed persons by 10.5 thousand. Nevertheless, since Q4 2012 Latvian employment rate…
Russia’s Ural Airlines plans to add four more new air routes to its network from Kazakhstan to Russia during the fall and winter 2018-2019, the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee’s press service said. The flights will be operated by A319, A320 and A321 aircrafts. Ural Airlines will fly between Zhukovsky and Almaty five times a week…
The Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev signed a decree on increasing the authorized capital of the company by 1 billion soms, Information Support Department of the Government’s Executive Office reported. The decision was made in order to further develop the company and effectively manage the state-owned stake of the financial institution. Aiyl Bank is…
The Ukrainian pharmaceutical manufacturers cannot do customs clearing for medicine to be imported to Uzbekistan, the Association of Employers’ Organizations of the Medical and Microbiological Industry of Ukraine (OORMMPU) said in a statement. “Pharmaceutical products have been at the customs for several weeks now, but the customs service of the Republic of Uzbekistan does not…
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) serviced 2.424 million passengers in January-October, up by 56.3% YoY, the airport’s press service reports. The number of passengers serviced on international flights totaled 2,351.2 thousand, and on domestic flights – 73 thousand. The number of flights in January-October included 25,904 both arrivals and departures, up by 32.9% (of…
According to Taavi Veskimagi, CEO of the Estonian state-owned transmission system operator (TSO) Elering, the current low price of electricity does not allow for investments. Veskimagi said that the current quarter’s price jump to more than EUR 40 per megawatt-hour was rather an anomaly, and electricity prices were forecast to return to EUR 40 or…
Azerbaijan will start exporting wine to Mongolia, Acting Director of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) Yusif Abdullayev said at a briefing in Baku on November 14. Abdullayev added that wine was expected to be exported to Mongolia by the end of 2018 – in early 2019. “For the Mongolian market, Azerbaijani wines…