Daniyar Akishev, Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, mentioned the much talked about merger of Qazkom and Khalyk Bank on February 22. The question about the consolidation of the two Kazakhstani banks popped up at the online conference Akishev held in Almaty. “The process of the merger is underway. We were…
The Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the UN Geneva Office organized a special meeting entitled “Intermodal Communication and Role of Historic Transport Routes: Great Silk Road”, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. This event was held in Geneva during the 80th session of the Inland Transport Committee (ITC) of the United Nations Economic…
The banking sector of Ukraine in 2017 posted UAH 24.4 billion of net loss, according to a February survey of the banking sector posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). According to the document, PrivatBank and two banks with Russian capital mainly saw the loss. In 2017 the number of loss-making…
Ukraine’s public and publicly guaranteed debt has amounted to UAH 2.14 trillion (about $74 billion), Head of the State Treasury Service Tetiana Sliuz said during a public report on the activities of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine for 2017. “Of course, publicly guaranteed debt actually reaches trillions. As of January 1 it amounted to…
In January Belarusian Railways transported 12.143 million tons of freight, up by 127.5% YoY, the company’s press service reported. Export freight reached 4.5 million tons, up by 30%. Transit freight grew by 11.6%, to 3.76 million tons. Belarusian Railways secured the loading of about 7 million tons of freight, up by 33%. Freight turnover of…
A health resort may be built at Lake Tuzkol of Inderskiy district, Atyrau region. Last year the content of the water was studied by Kazakhstan scientists together with Russian specialists of Pyatigorsk State Scientific Research Institute of Balneology of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of the Russian Federation. The analysis showed high degree of healing…
Kyrgyzstan will export other 550 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to Uzbekistan until the end of March. This was announced at the board meeting of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of the Kyrgyz Republic on February 21. According to the agency, 1,143 million kilowatt-hours of electricity were exported to Uzbekistan at 2…