The total price index of agricultural output in 2017 increased by 11.6% YoY, which was mainly due to the rise in prices of livestock products by 25.8%. The price index of crop products grew by 2.2%. Increase in the price index of livestock products was mainly affected by significant rise in milk prices. The average…
Kazakh Energy Ministry has found a private investor ready to take part in construction of the fourth refinery in the territory of Kazakhstan, our correspondent reports. “Another key step in the domestic oil and gas industry is construction of a new refinery. A group was set up on the instructions of the president to develop…
Belarus plans to refinance 75% of the external debt, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) Pavel Kallaur declared. He spoke about the latest decisions of the government. He said that 75% of the external debt would be refinanced and 25% would be repaid from the revenues the…
Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Dmytro Sologub says the central bank’s tighter monetary policy will help to curb inflation to 5% by the end of 2020. “A tighter monetary policy will help to return inflation to the target range in the second half of 2019 and reduce it to 5% at…
Ukrainian farmers in January-March boosted fruit and berry exports by 68% YoY, to $57 million. “The leaders in the commodity structure of domestic products exports this year were walnuts ($42 million), frozen berries ($10 million), as well as apples and pears ($5 million),” the press service of the Ukrainian association of gardening and small fruit…
Azerbaijan’s construction and production company Akkord has been declared the winner of the tender for the implementation of two infrastructure projects in Georgia with a total value of $59.5 million, the company said in a statement. The customer of both projects is the Road Department of the Ministry of regional development and infrastructure of Georgia,…
Equipment for the new control tower at the Dushanbe airport will be supplied by French Company Thales, a source in the Tajik government reported. The source said this issue had been discussed at a meeting of Tajik Deputy Prime Minister Azim Ibrohim with Vice-President of Thales Oliver Auchan. The equipment is expected to be supplied…