Gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities have declined by 22.2% or 3.272 billion cubic meters to 11.460 billion cubic meters since October 13, 2016 when the current heating season began, through January 8. Ukraine withdrew 86.33 million cubic meters from underground storage on January 8, and a total of 533.38 million cubic meters in…
The Individuals’ Deposit Guarantee Fund tentatively earned around 3 billion UAH from selling property of insolvent banks in 2016, director of the consolidated sale and asset management department of the fund Yulia Bereschenko has said. “We received around 3 billion UAH. We are summarizing the results of the year, as it takes a couple of…
Visits to Georgia by foreign citizens reached 6,350,825 in 2016, up by 7.6% YoY, according to the data released by the Interior Ministry. The Interior Ministry compiles statistics based on border crossing data. Travelers entering Georgia and staying in the country for more than 24 hours are classified as “tourists”. Of the total 6.35 million…
The Customs Code of the Eurasian Economic Union will increase the investment appeal and transit potential of Belarus, the review of Belarus’ foreign policy and the performance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2016 says. According to the review, a new revision of the Eurasian Economic Union’s Customs Code was put together in 2016.…
Five haul trucks made by the Belarusian automobile engineering company BelAZ are now used in the gold-mining quarry Kazreti, Georgia. The haul trucks BelAZ-7555V are used in the gold-mining quarry of the company GMP Cooper. It is an open pit. The projected depth of the quarry is 250 meters. Mining operations are now performed at…
DCH Group of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky officially announced that Kharkiv Tractor Plant started operating on January 6, the press service of the group has reported. “Today is the joyful day in the history of Kharkiv Tractor Plant: we have a chance of starting the processes required for the launch of production”, the press service said…
Bellesbumprom enterprises branched out into 12 new markets in 2016, Bellesbumprom spokesperson Ruzhena Novitskaya said. “The export geography of Bellesbumprom enterprises included such new destinations as Bangladesh, Bahrain, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Morocco, the UAE, Albania, Iraq, Israel, and Luxembourg. In January-November 2016, the enterprises of Bellesbumprom exported $268.5 million worth of products…