The story about economic growth is not in any way related to the work performed by Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis. Economic growth is based on money provided by European structural funds in previous planning period, says chairman of New Conservative Party and prime minister candidate Janis Bordans. “It is claimed that Kucinskis’ government has made…
Prices for consumer goods and tariffs for services in Azerbaijan increased by 4.7% in January-February as compared to January-February 2017, the State Statistics Committee said on March 9. The prices for food products increased by 5.8%, prices for non-food items – by 4.7% and the cost of paid services – by 3.3% during the reporting…
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…