Licenses of 13 exchange offices were revoked in 2016 for the systematic violation of regulations and failure to fulfill the requirements of the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan. In recent years, the number of exchange offices increased in Kyrgyzstan. At the beginning of 2016 there were 394 of them – 65 more than in 2015. In…
In January the index of consumer prices for goods and services totaled 100.9% as against December 2016, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported. In January the basic index of consumer prices that disregards changes of prices for the commodities and services affected by administrative and seasonal factors reached 100.7% as against December 2016. Food…
Tajikistan’s first privately owned air company, Somon Air, operated a test flight to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The airline was operating the test flight to Tashkent with a delegation of the Tajik civil aviation authorities on board. Meanwhile, regular flights are expected every Monday from February 20, onward. Somoni Air has said in an…
Tajikistan intends to increase its gold-and-currency reserves, according to the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT). The country’s gold-and-currency reserves rose by 37% YoY by December 31, 2016, reaching $681.98 million, which was an equivalent of about 2.7 months of imports. Last year, Tajikistan’s average monthly imports amounted to $252 million. As of January 1, 2016…
In his recent resolution, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved of the feasibility report of ‘Construction of Tashkent Airport New International Passenger Terminal (Tashkent 4),’ an investment project. Uzbekistan Airways is constructing the terminal under the Engineering, Communication and Road Transport Development and Modernization Program for 2015-2019. The project is exemplary of bilateral relations between Uzbekistan and…
Russian aviation was redeployed from air bases in Chelyabinsk region and the air base «Kant» (Kyrgyzstan) to Tajikistan, the Assistant Commander of the Central Military District, Colonel Jaroslav Roshupkin said. «Aircrafts of operational-tactical aviation — Su-24M and Su-25 SM — were redeployed to the airfield Aini near Dushanbe for a planned joint training of units…
The Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund expects that state-run Oschadbank (Kyiv) would become participant of the fund in the middle of 2018, Managing Director of the fund Kostiantyn Vorushylin said. “We expect that from 2018 Oschadbank will become participant of the fund. It is already planned. This will mean additional payments to the fund,” he said,…