On June 30 a grant agreement for “the Project for Improvement of Substations in Dushanbe” was signed between Tajikistan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the amount of 2,190 million Japanese Yen (about $20 million), JICA Tajikistan Office reported. The document was reportedly inked by the Minister of Finance of Tajikistan Abdusalom Qurboniyon…
The level of “shadow economy” in Ukraine last year amounted to 34% of GDP, decreasing by 6%, such preliminary figures have been posted by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. “All four methods, which are used to assess the level of the shadow economy, showed a decrease in the level compared to 2015,” the…
Kharkiv International Airport increased passenger traffic by 51% YoY in January-June, to 364,100 people. According to a press release from the airport, in June it serviced 82,900 passengers, up by 37% YoY. “By the end of June, we can talk about the popularity of renewed summer flights to Burgas (Bulgaria, on Fridays), Tivat (Montenegro, on…
According to the official statistics figures, in May Kazakhstan shipped 13.3 thousand tons of wheat to Turkey, which exceeded the volumes shipped in April by 93%. At the same time, the export volumes reduced by 14% YoY. In July-May 2016-2017 MY Kazakhstan supplied 45.6 thousand tons of wheat to the country, down by 39% YoY…
The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) sold $373.2 million through currency auctions organized by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) in June, SOFAZ said in a message on July 3. During the six months of 2017, SOFAZ sold more than $1.687 billion at currency auctions. In total, Azerbaijan’s banks bought around $4.92 billion from…
Germany’s REWE Group, developing the Billa supermarket chain in Central and Eastern Europe, does not plan to leave Ukraine. “Billa continues operating in Ukraine and would be successfully present on the Ukrainian market. We do not plan to leave Ukraine,” Rewe International AG, the subsidiary of the German concern, reported. The company confirmed that the…
Citizen of Belarus and Cyprus Viktor Prokopenya on June 30 submitted a package of documents to receive the approval of indirect acquisition of 100% of shares in the public joint-stock company Sberbank (Kyiv) via Paritetbank, Belarus to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the press service of the central bank has reported. “At present the…