Thirteen Georgian wine companies have made quite an impression at the leading industry event for wine and spirits professionals in the Asia-Pacific, Vinexpo Hong Kong, which was held on May 29-31. The three-day show featured meetings, new products and networking opportunities for importers, distributors, producers, sommeliers and merchants from around the world, including Georgia. As…
Belarus plans to supply more than 3.5 million tons of milk to Russia before the end of 2018. The amount is envisaged in the Union State food balance sheets, Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, said. “Belarus and Russia have finalized the Union…
Estonia was the only country in the EU in which unemployment grew in April, increasing from 5.3% to 5.6%. Overall unemployment in the EU remained at 7.1% compared to March and fell by 0.7% compared to April 2017, it can be seen from data released by Eurostat. In the eurozone, employment decreased by 0.1% MoM…
The Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine plans to create four more aviation hubs in the regional centers. “Apart from Boryspil airport, we need four more regional hubs – in Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Dnipro,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said. As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the National Transport Strategy until 2030. The…
Wage debts in Ukraine in April increased by 2.1% MoM, to UAH 2.474 billion, or $94.7 million, as of May 1. Delayed wages have grown by 4.4% since the beginning of the year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has said. Debts owed to employees of operating enterprises as of May 1, amounted to UAH…
Tbilisi City Hall is launching a project of a gradual replacement of Soviet time residential flats, the so-called “khrushchovkas” in Tbilisi. Khrushchovka flats were built in the Soviet Union, in the early 1960s during the time of the leadership of their namesake Nikita Khrushchev. There are about 700 khrushchovka buildings in Tbilisi whose lifespan expired…
Kazakhstan launched the construction of the Big Almaty Ring Road (BARR). The project envisages construction of a 66-km long bypass road around Almaty with six lanes. Intensity of traffic on the BARR is estimated at more than 38,000 cars per day. Along with the construction of the highway, the project provides for the construction of…