Consumer prices increased by an average 3.4% in 2017 compared to 2016. They were influenced the most by food products and non-alcoholic beverages, which made up two fifths of the increase, Statistics Estonia reported on January 8. The price of milk, dairy products, and eggs increased by 10.4% YoY, accounting for the single indicator that…
Passengers of the “unfortunate” G9-252 flight of Air Arabia finally jetted off from Astana and Almaty to Sharjah. The flight was initially scheduled to leave the airport in Astana at 04:55 a.m. on January 6 but was delayed for two days. On January 8 the passengers of the delayed flight headed to Sharjah via G9-252…
The poverty rate in Ukraine decreased to 12% in 2017, according to the results of the study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. “And this is one of the few but important achievements of Ukraine over the years. In 2008, after the beginning of the world crisis, the poverty rate increased to 21%,…
Kyiv’s Luch State Design Bureau has developed a brand new 107mm rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The grenade launcher will replace the Soviet-era RPO Rys rocket propelled flamethrower, withdrawn from use in 2014, as the shelf life of its reactive mixture had expired. The new sample of a heavy infantry weapon is designed to engage such targets…
During holidays (from December 29 to January 4), 16,404 passengers were transported by trains running between Baku and Tbilisi and within Azerbaijan, Sevinj Gadirova, head of public relations department of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, declared. She noted that this figure exceeded the usual indicator 2-fold. Gadirova added that taking into account the high passenger traffic, 73…
According to the preliminary data, Belarus’ gold and foreign currency reserves totaled $7,315 million as of January 1, if calculated in accordance with methods of the International Monetary Fund, the Information and PR Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus reported. In December 2017, the country’s gold and foreign currency reserves went…
The passenger buses en route Shymkent-Tashkent will operate on a day-to-day basis, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development said. The new route was launched on January 5. The buses will go to the destination points every hour from 6:00 am till 8:00 pm, the ministry added. The total travel time…