Russia’s cross-border sales of goods and services, including digital goods, content, games and social networks, will grow by 32% in 2016 to $2 billion, payment platform PayPal and research agency Data Insight said in a study. The internal e-commerce market will exceed $20 billion in 2016. “The market of retail Internet exports of goods and…
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has amended the law on 2016 national budget, expanding expenses on defense and security by 7.1 billion UAH without the increase in the deficit of the national budget. A total of 265 lawmakers backed bill No. 5217 at the session of the parliament. The government’s bill was registered in parliament on October…
Washington has de-facto suspended cooperation with Moscow on an agreement on nuclear power cooperation after Crimea was annexed in 2014 and Moscow only formalized the fact on Wednesday, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. On Wednesday, Moscow suspended cooperation with US in scientific research and nuclear power. The Foreign Ministry said that Moscow would still fulfill…
The Russian Satellite Communications Company, a federal satellite operator, has failed to insure all communications space apparatuses of the Express series, as the market’s health is close to critical, Alexander Podchufarov, vice president of insurance company Ingosstrakh, said. “The state of the insurance market is close to critical; only the Russian space industry had $662…
According to the regional agricultural departments, as of October 6, Kazakh agrarians harvested grains throughout nearly 15 million ha, or 97.7% of the planned areas, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared. As of the reporting date, agrarians produced 22.643 million tons of grains, up by 4.962 million tons YoY. The average…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said the Cabinet of Ministers plans to approve the starting price of Odessa port-side chemical plant proposed by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF). “We are now looking forward to proposals from the State Property Fund for the next round of the sale of the object. I believe…
Short-term rains observed last week did not replenish soil moisture stocks considerably and moistened only the upper soil layer. The situation is better in the 10-cm soil layer and sowing campaign is coming to the end in quite good conditions. Plants sown in the first half of September are at the stage of first-third leave…