A mutual contract has been signed between Latvian Defense Ministry and Danish Defense Ministry for the procurement of anti-air missile launchers used by the Danish armed forces, as confirmed by Latvian Defense Ministry. It is planned that the launchers will be delivered in the first half of 2018. As noted by Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds…
Retail trade in Ukraine grew by 8% YoY in January-July, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service’s website. Retail turnover increased the most in Zakarpattia, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, and Lviv regions – by 21%, 17.7%, 12.8%, 10.8%, 10.6%, 9.5% and 9.5%, respectively. Retail trade in July alone rose by 6.7% against June, while…
This year the grain yield in Belarus is above last year’s average, Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun said. “This year the grain yield in the country is above last year’s figures. The average yield in 2017 is 35.8 hundredweights per hectare, with Grodno region posting the crop capacity of 43.5 hundredweights per…
Until the end of August, the third phase of the reconstruction of Suusamyr – Talas – Taraz highway will have been completed, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan informed. According to it, the second layer of asphalt is being laid from 75th to 105th km of the road. The company “Chakyr Yapy Sanayiwe…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, intends to launch long-haul flights to India and Canada in summer 2018. According to the press service of the company, the matter concerns flights to Delhi and Toronto to be performed four and three times a week respectively. As reported, the commission of the State…
On August 22, Ukraine and Israel will hold the tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation in Kyiv. This was reported by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. “The tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation will be held in Kyiv on…
In recent years, Latvia has managed to reduce the electricity price difference with other Baltic neighboring countries, as reported by Enefit Chairman Janis Bethers. “Although Latvian households still pay the most for electricity, these expenses will continue declining. The price difference with Estonia, which historically has the lowest wholesale prices, has declined nearly 2-fold,” says…