After the Turkish government has recently put out an urgent request for 120 complete active protection systems to go on M60A3, M60T, and Leopard 2A4 tanks, Turkish defense contractor Aselsan obtained a license from Ukraine’s Microtek to produce a version of their Zaslon-L system, which it called the Akkor Pulat. Aselsan’s own Akkor system is…
The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in February was 0.9% compared to 1.5% in January, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has reported. According to the agency, in annual terms (February 2018 to February 2017) the growth of consumer prices slowed down to 14% from 14.1% compared to January 2018 from January 2017. Underlying…
Kazakhstan supplied 175.8 KMT of barley to foreign markets in December 2017. This was the largest volume since MY 2014-2015 and 13.7% more than in December 2016. Total barley exports from Kazakhstan in September-December 2017-2018 reached 553.7 KMT, up from 355.6 KMT. In the first four months of MY 2017-2018 the top three importers of…
Last year the largest profits among banks in Latvia were recorded for Swedbank and ABLV Bank. Seven banks worked with losses in Latvia last year, according to data compiled by Association of Latvian Commercial Banks. Swedbank’s profits were EUR 94.366 million, up by 1.6% YoY. This amount also accounted for 40% of the banking sector’s…
Belarus’ Construction and Architecture Ministry will expand cooperation with Russia and Ukraine, Belarus’ Construction and Architecture Minister Anatoly Chernyi declared. “There are plans to hold meetings with the governors of Bryansk region and Smolensk region. The meeting with the Kaliningrad region governor is scheduled for next week. Plans are in place to build the Belarusian…
Ukraine will reach the GDP level of 2013 in the next three to four years, Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade Mykhailo Titarchuk has said. “In fact, as for the loss of GDP in 2014, this figure is 15.75%. We understand the reasons – Donbas, temporary loss of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.…
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) served 130.8 thousand passengers in February, up by 51.6% YoY, the airport’s press service reports. The number of passengers served on international flights totaled 124.9 thousand, domestic flights – 5.9 thousand. The number of flights in February included 1,648 both arrivals and departures, up by 20.5% YoY (of which there were…