A total of 1,742.600 hectares, or 80.2%, of areas under crops have been harvested in Belarus so far, the Agriculture and Food Ministry reported. As of August 18, Belarus’ grain harvest exceeded 6.274 million tons. Brest region harvested more than 1,205.8 million tons, Minsk region – 1,546.000 tons. Gomel region and Grodno region cropped 896,800…
Audit meeting, reviewing the results of the work of oil and gas industry’s enterprises over the past seven months of 2017, was organized in Ashgabat. At the meeting reports on the promotion of several major investment projects, the construction of a gas chemical complex for the production of polyethylene and polypropylene and a plant for…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to provide funding for the construction of Chaparli-Kandoba-Jalayir road. Under the presidential order, 5.8 million manats is allocated from the state budget for the construction of the road connecting eight residential areas with a total population of 8,000 people. (AzerNews/Business World Magazine)
Ukraine should increase the volume of restoration works in Donbas, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has said following his visit to the region. “We should together with the prime minister and the president launch a powerful program to restore infrastructure in Donbas next year: roads, railways, aviation,” he wrote on his Facebook page. The…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) at the foreign exchange auction on August 17 bought $44 million, according to the press service of the central bank. As a result of the auction, the minimum exchange rate of hryvnia was UAH 25.5 per U.S. dollar, the maximum – UAH 25.5195 per U.S. dollar, and the average…
The Latvian airBaltic airline carried 393,312 passengers in July, up by 21% YoY. The number of passengers carried by airBaltic remains the highest it has ever been in the airline’s history. In the first seven months airBaltic carried 1,958,774 passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. airBaltic CEO Martin Gauss…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the government does not support and will not make any decisions on raising the price of natural gas for households. He stated this at a meeting on preparations for the upcoming heating season during his working visit to Mykolaiv region on August 17. “The government does not…