The forecasts say that the real GDP growth in Kyrgyzstan will be 2.9% in 2017, country’s Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov has said. The Prime Minister noted that the risks which could affect the GDP growth in 2017 were instability of the global economy, dependence of the economy on world prices for gold and energy resources,…
Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade has met President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. Rasizade said Azerbaijani-Venezuelan relations were at a good level, adding that both countries supported each other within international organizations. The Prime Minister said there was good potential for boosting economic ties between the two countries and stressed the importance of increasing efforts for…
Zhitkovichikhimservis Company, which implements a pilot project to produce highly efficient organic fertilizers through advanced sapropel processing, has received modern equipment for sapropel processing. The equipment transfer was facilitated in the framework of the Green Economy Project run by the European Union and the UNDP. The equipment transferred during a special ceremony on October 20,…
Ukraine will build its own centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility and from 2017 the country will not remove spent nuclear fuel for temporary storage to Russia, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said. “I want to thank the Verkhovna Rada that we have settled the issue of building the dry spent…
Ukraine’s state railway transport administration Ukrainian Railways has blocked entrance and transit through the country to tank wagons of some Russian railway operators, including Sberbank Leasing and SG-Trans, according to the letter of Ukrainian Railways. Besides tank wagons of Sberbank Leasing and SG-Trans, Ukrainian Railways blocked entrance and transit of all cargoes and empty tank…
As of October 1, agricultural enterprises and grain storage and processing enterprises of Ukraine stocked 24.87 million tons of grains and sunflower seed, down by 897 thousand tons YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. In particular, the carry-over stocks of wheat reached 14.477 million tons, corn for grain – 3.99 million tons, barley…
On October 17-23, Ukraine exported nearly 1 million tons of grains from the seaports, against 506 thousand tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 544 thousand tons, barley – 142.6 thousand tons, and corn – 320.1 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)