In December 2016 Belarus’ gold and foreign currency reserves rose by $88.9 million if calculated in accordance with methods of the International Monetary Fund. According to preliminary data, the reserves totaled $4.927 billion as of January 1, 2017, the Information and PR Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus reported. In national…
The Brest Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is organizing a business visit to the 7th international exhibition TSW 2017 that is due to take place in Warsaw on January 11-12, head of the foreign economic cooperation department of the BCCI Office in Brest Yelena Pivnik reported. A group of representatives…
Ukraine’s Finance Ministry at the end of 2016 additionally injected 107 billion UAH into PrivatBank (Dnipro), Fitch Ratings has said in a press release. At the end of 2016 Fitch Ratings downgraded ratings of the financial institution. Fitch said that in December 2016 the Finance Ministry paid 107 billion UAH for shares of PrivatBank. The…
A full round of talks on Belarus’ accession to the World Trade Organization will be held in January, reads the review of Belarus’ foreign policy and the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2016. “The negotiations on Belarus’ accession to the World Trade Organization have been intensified pursuant to the instructions of the…
The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev adopted a resolution “On measures on implementation of the “Construction of Sergeli metro” project.” The document was adopted in order to improve the transport infrastructure of the Tashkent city, develop and extend metro lines, increase passenger traffic in the metro and reduce the workload of the ground public transports…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revised requirements to anonymity of applications of participants during the placement of government domestic loan bonds, the central bank has reported. Amendments to the rules of holding transactions related to the placement of government domestic loan bonds were approved by the Finance Ministry. They are outlined in NBU…
The tariff for natural gas for the population of Kyrgyzstan in January is set at 14.48 soms per cubic meter, the press service of Gazprom Kyrgyzstan LLC reported. Industrial enterprises, businesses, and government organizations, will pay 17.75 soms per cubic meter including VAT and sales tax, excluding sales tax – 17.59 soms. The tariff is…