Global Finance, an English-language international financial magazine, has named ASB Belarusbank the best bank on the Belarusian market for the fifth time. The information is posted on the website of the magazine. Global Finance magazine announced its annual awards for the World’s Best Banks last week. Among the honorees for Central and Eastern Europe it…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) due to the blockade of trade with the certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the improvement of situation on foreign markets has revised macro indicators for 2017 and 2018, in particular, worsening the forecast for the growth of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for 2017 from…
According to preliminary information, Ukraine exported 840 KMT of wheat in February that is basically comparable with its exports in the same month last year (855 KMT). In total, the country supplied 13.56 MMT of wheat to foreign markets in the first eight months of the current season, or 14.5% more than at the same…
Construction of a new central hospital has begun in the town of Aralsk. According to the press service of the Kyzylorda regional administration, akim (governor) of Kyzylorda region Krymbek Kusherbayev took part in the groundbreaking ceremony of the hospital. During the ceremony, governor Kusherbayev congratulated residents of Aralsk on Nauryz holiday and the onset of…
In January-February, PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukrainian railways, transported 53.7 million tons of cargo, which is by 9% more compared with the same period last year, according to a report on the company’s website. In particular, Ukrzaliznytsia transported 26 million tons of cargo within the country, which is by 10.1% more than in January-February 2016, 6 million…
The rail freight traffic between Belarus and Latvia increased by 15.9% in January-February, the press center of Belarusian Railways reported. “Head of Belarusian Railways Vladimir Morozov will meet with Latvian Railways President Edvins Berzins in Riga on March 23-24. The parties will discuss a number of topical matters of bilateral cooperation and review the results…
This year the spring weather processes influencing the plant development started almost a month ahead of the multi-year average. According to meteorologists, the meteorological and actual resumption of winter crops growth happened on March 1-5 against the multi-year average of April 1-4. Last year their growth started on April 1. In general, winter crops have…