Ukraine in 2016 imported 1.61 billion cubic meters of natural gas for a total of $394 million. Thus, according to the State Statistics Service, the average price of gas imported in January was $244.6 per 1,000 cubic meters against $228.8 in December 2016. Last year Ukraine from counterparties in Switzerland received 744.999 million cubic meters…
On March 11-12, air temperatures became slightly lower than earlier in the month. Cloudy weather dominated the country with almost daily insignificant precipitation occurring all over its territory except for the East. The average daily air temperature was within a range of +2.2 to +7.5 degrees C, i.e. 2.9-6.4 degrees above normal. On the warmest…
An all-time high of 4.9 KMT of sunoil was supplied from Kazakhstan to foreign markets in January. Looking into the export dynamics of the first five months of each season, periods of high and minimum exports alternated from 2008 till 2014. By 2013/2014, exports had reached 13.6 KMT – the highest point for the time.…
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman says that government spent about UAH 10 billion on road repairs and construction last year; however some of these repaired roads are again in poor condition. “Last year we spent UAH 10 billion on roads and the situation in many regions was noticeably better, but there are many new…
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree “On measures for further simplification of the system of micro-lending to businesses and the wider population”, aimed at ensuring broad access to preferential micro-loans. The decree provides for the introduction of a simplified mechanism for granting micro-loans to newly registered individual entrepreneurs (IE) and family business entities (FBE) without…
Clothing for children and adolescents in the Eurasian Economic Union will become safer. Corresponding amendments to the technical regulations of the union were approved by the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission. It is noted that tougher requirements for the quality of fabrics used for making children’s clothes have been set. In particular, the division…
The sale of Alfa-Bank Ukraine is not being planned, one of the bank’s major shareholders Petr Aven declared. “We are not preparing to sell,” Aven said, adding that Alfa-Bank currently had a “normal working relationship” with the National Bank of Ukraine. Earlier, the director of strategic communication of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Denis Kazvan said that after…