Head of Ukraine’s Altcom Financial-Industrial Group Alexander Tislenko, during his meeting with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, spoke about the interest of his company to further strengthen positions on prospective Turkmen market. The company intends to actively participate in planned large-scale projects and programs, which are of great importance for strengthening and increasing the potential of…
Japan has allocated grants worth $551,100 to Uzbekistan for the implementation of eight social projects, the Japanese embassy said. The grants are allocated through the Japanese governmental program “Official Development Assistance” (ODA), the embassy said. Uzbek Deputy Minister of Healthcare Elmira Basitkhanova, the country’s First Deputy Minister of Public Education Bakhtiyor Daniyarov and Japanese Ambassador…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has increased the total estimated cost of construction of the 750 kV Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP)-Kyivska substation power line by 20% or by UAH 970.443 million, to UAH 5.818 billion. The decision is outlined in government resolution No. 132-r dated March 1. According to the document, the estimated cost of…
In the current season Ukraine demonstrated record rates of imports of Belarusian rye flour. In July-January of 2016/2017 MY the import volumes of Belarusian rye flour to Ukraine totaled 23.6 thousand tons against 252 tons only in the same period last season. At the same time, in the current season Ukraine significantly decreased the domestic…
Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva discussed with Director of the World Bank for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Satu Kahkonen and Director of the World Bank for Finance and Markets Global Practice Alfonso Garcia Mora the current stage of the reform of the banking sector. This has been reported by the press…
Alim Guliyev has been re-elected the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) under a decision made at a plenary session of the Parliament on March 7. Vadim Khubanov and Aftandil Babayev have also been re-elected deputies of the CBA chairman. Alim Guliyev and Vadim Khubanov have held their positions since 1996.…
Ukraine since the beginning of the 2016/2017 marketing year (July-June) and as of March 7, exported 29.91 million tons of grain. According to the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, the country exported about 13.69 million tons of wheat, 4.67 million tons of barley and 11.37 million tons of corn. In addition, 265,100 tons of…