The legislative draft, which is intended to ratify the agreement for the formation of Rail Baltica railway connection in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, was supported unanimously by Saeima’s Foreign Affairs Committee on June 14. The goal of the agreement is ensuring effective and quick establishment of European railway line for passenger and cargo transports on…
The reduction of the customs duty on the export of potash fertilizers will not substantially influence the state budget, Belarusian First Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Yermolovich declared after an expanded-participation session of the Budget and Finance Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on June 14. When asked whether this…
Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev has met with the American Chamber of Commerce. At the meeting Akishev noted that the National Bank as the central bank of the country closely monitored trends in and outside the country and assumed measures taking into account global trends and challenges. “Kazakhstan…
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has proposed retaining expense expenditures for 2018 at 5% of GDP, according to the draft bill “Budget policy basics for 2018-2020 (Budget Resolution).” “The priority is supporting defense and security: expenditures for this sphere for 2018 will be at 5% of GDP,” Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said, presenting the resolution. “Within…
Ukraine’s state-owned enterprise Antonov will take part in the 52nd International Paris Air Show to be held at the Le Bourget Parc des Expositions on June 19-25, according to the company’s post on Facebook. The company noted that An-132D, being a prototype of An-132 multi-purpose transport aircraft, would be presented on the international level for…
Pasazieru vilciens will continue the procurement of new trains in the second stage of the process. This was conceptually approved by the government on June 13. Transport Ministry reports that new trains are planned to be procured using credit resources, not funding from the state budget. PV promises to perform a new procurement immediately by…
Ukrainian Nuclear power plants produced 224.87 million kWh of electricity on June 12, the press-service of Ukraine’s State Enterprise “National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom” reports. On June 13, 12 out of 15 power units were functioning at the Ukrainian power plants. It is the 118th day of the average planned repair at power unit…