The National Agency of Investment and Privatization of Belarus (NAIP) intends to attract strategic investors to the enterprises to be privatized within the framework of the pilot project the agency is implementing with assistance of the World Bank, NAIP Director Natalya Nikandrova announced. The agency has been taking care of pre-privatization of eight Belarusian enterprises…
Small and medium private enterprises are expected to secure three fourths of the national economy’s growth by late 2020. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov made the statement after his working trip to Minsk region on September 30. “We now pay close attention to small and medium private enterprises. We expect these enterprises to secure…
Russia plans to increase grain exports, despite president Vladimir Putin’s recommendations not to rush with exports given lower international prices, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachyov said. “Of course, the country’s interests, its food goals, feed stuff for animals, seeds come first, while the rest is exported”, he said. “Our balance is (good), we obviously will increase…
As of September 29, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 42.4 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 38.8 million ha), or 89.8% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 110.7 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Russian multi-industry holding Renova Group has not received any offers to sell its unit, power producer T Plus, Viktor Vekselberg, the group’s main owner and chairman of the board of directors, said. Ensuring power supplies in 16 Russian regions, T Plus is currently involved in a bribery case. According to the Investigative Committee, in 2007-2014,…
Russian oil major Rosneft has asked the government to cut oil pipeline monopoly Transneft’s tariffs for domestic oil and oil product transportation by 50% and decrease Russian Railways’ tariffs by 30%. Rosneft asked this in August, while ministries were ordered to study the issue in September. Representatives of Rosneft and Transneft declined to comment, representatives…
Pivdenmash (Dnipro) has welcomed a possibility of resuming production of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle for Sea Launch project announced by the new owner of the platform – Russia’s S7 Group. The enterprise said in a statement that after the recent signing of a contract between S7 Group and Sea Launch S.A. the intention of the…