The volume of public and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2018 increased by $1.06 billion in dollar terms, or by 1.4%, to $77.37 billion as of March 31. In hryvnia equivalent, public debt over the said period decreased by UAH 88.09 billion, or by 4.1%, to UAH 2.054 trillion, according to…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered to start the large-scale production of Ukraine’s brand new Vilkha (Alder) missile system in 2018. “The Ukrainian army will get high-precision weapons. I attended the final testing of our Vilkha missile complex,” he wrote on Facebook on April 25. “Why is it so important? Not only because the Ukrainian…
The Association of Beekeepers of Azerbaijan will send an appeal to the Agriculture Ministry, according to the president of the association Badraddin Khasratov. The goal is to obtain organic certification for Azerbaijani honey. “The ministry should apply to the Cabinet of Ministers for this. After the receipt of the certificate of organic product, the entry…
Kyrgyzstan will export beef and mutton to China, the Director of the State Inspection for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Safety, Kalysbek Zhumakanov, declared on April 26. According to him, Kyrgyzstan has signed four protocols with China for the export of meat. “We will also export products from beef, lamb, chicken,” Kalysbek Zhumakanov told. He stressed that…
Tajikistan has called on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank (EBRD) to participate in construction of the Rogun hydroelectric power plant (HPP). The request has reportedly been made during a meeting of Jamoliddin Nouraliyev, First Deputy Head of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), with Jurgen Rigterink, First Vice-President of the European Bank…
Ukraine is working on the signing of a number of international contracts in the aerospace sector, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Yuriy Brovchenko, who heads the Ukrainian delegation at the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show, declared. “We are reaching the finish line in terms of signing some contracts, procedures for joining the…
In January-March Ukrainian enterprises completed construction works worth UAH 18.3 billion, the index of construction products made up 99.7% compared with the same period in 2017, Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Lev Partskhaladze stated, the government’s press service reports. “In the first three months of 2018 Ukrainian enterprises carried out construction…