Comprehensive measures to further improve the business environment, to ensure reliable protection of small business and private entrepreneurship, to remove the barriers for their comprehensive support and accelerated development contributed to the creation of some 31 thousand new small businesses in 2016, according to SSC information service. As a result, the number of small businesses…
Gazprom has billed Naftogaz Ukrainy $5.3 billion for not accepting contracted take-or-pay provisions for gas. If that amount is included in the earlier declared claims in the Stockholm arbitration case, the amount of claims in the case of fulfilling the contract on supplies will grow to $37 billion, which makes up more than half of…
Kazakhstan produced nearly 74.63 tons of unprocessed, semi-processed and powder gold in January-December 2016, up by 17.3% YoY, the Kazakh Statistics Committee said. According to the committee, the fine gold production increased by 21.6%, to 37.74 tons. The committee said the production of unprocessed, semi-processed and powder silver dropped by 9.8% YoY, to 1,180 tons.…
Fitch Ratings has assigned Kernel Holding S.A.’s planned benchmark USD unsecured eurobond an expected rating of ‘B+(EXP)’, Fitch said in a press release. Fitch Ratings has placed Kernel’s Long-Term Local-Currency (LC) and Foreign-Currency (FC) Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) on Rating Watch Positive (RWP). The final ratings of the bonds are contingent upon receipt of final…
A customs experiment introduced by the government of Ukraine in September 2015 allowed in 2015-2016 to collect an additional UAH 2.8 billion to local budgets for road infrastructure repairs, of which nearly UAH 1.5 billion was spent on road repairs and construction. According to the press service of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of…
Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelian says that more low cost airlines would operate in Ukraine in 2017. “As to the low cost airlines – this year they definitely will operate in Ukraine. This year Wizz Air will perform even more flights than it previously performed. It has significantly expanded routes from Ukraine,” Omelian said.…
Gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities declined by 25% or 3.677 billion cubic meters to 11.055 billion cubic meters since October 13, 2016 when the current heating season began, through January 14. Ukraine withdrew 52.84 million cubic meters from underground storage on January 14, and a total of 930.98 cubic meters on January 1…