Air Astana, the principal airline and the flag carrier of the Republic of Kazakhstan, has announced it will increase weekly frequency from Astana to London. Starting in June the carrier will perform flights on Sundays in addition to existing operations on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Flights will be operated on Boeing 757’s. Flight time…
The Russian delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of Russian Government Dmitry Kozak attended the eighteenth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the two countries in Tashkent. During the meeting the parties exchanged information and discussed issues of implementation of Protocol decisions of the seventeenth IGC meeting, which took place on March 25,…
A small hydropower plant was launched in Tegirmentin village of Kemin district, Chui region. The HPP with power capacity of 3.1 MW was built in 11 months by “Tegirmentinskaya HPP” company. Its construction cost 215 million soms. As the owner of the company Rakhat Irsaliev reported, they invested 71 million soms and took 144 million…
“Works at 2.9 billion soms under the Article “State capital investments” were executed in 2016,” the head of the Ministry of Transport and Roads Zhamshitbek Kalilov said. In 2016 the following roads were constructed: asphalt concrete road topping of Bishkek – Manas Airport (23 km) valued at 978.3 million soms; asphalt concrete road topping of…
The European Union has allocated to Kyrgyzstan a grant financial assistance for the development of regions. The agreement was signed in Brussels within the working visit of Almazbek Atambayev. The first tranche of EUR10 million is to be spent on the development of agriculture in Jalal-Abad region. EU will allocate EUR 72 million for 7…
Higher administrative court of Ukraine upheld the ruling of the court of a lower instance under which the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine is obliged to accept 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas made in 2006 as a tax lien from public joint-stock company Ukrnafta, the company’s press service has reported. “The court ruled…
In January-September 2016 the level of the shadow economy in Ukraine totaled 35% of official GDP, down by 5 YoY. This is stated in a report developed by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. According to the ministry, the process of de-shadowing became possible due to certain factors: relative macroeconomic stability; business climate improvement…