Ex-Soviet republic Tajikistan marked the start of construction of a controversial $4 billion Rogun hydroelectric dam conceived in the Soviet era, the presidential press service said. The high-profile ceremony was held in Rogun some 100 km from the capital of Dushanbe and saw President Emomali Rakhmon spend an hour-and-a-half behind the wheel of a bulldozer…
Kyrgyzstan postponed the sixth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States to be held in Bishkek, said the message posted on the website of the country’s Foreign Ministry. “The sixth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, which was earlier scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016 in Bishkek, was postponed…
On October 11-21, lowering of air temperatures and night frosts (-4-6 degrees C) were observed in the South and South-East of Kazakhstan, accompanied by excessive precipitations. Such meteorological conditions delayed fields’ preparation and winter wheat sowing in the Southern fields. At the early winter wheat sowings in Almaty and Zhambyl regions the phase of germination…
According to official data, as of October 24, grain crops had been threshed at 15.329 million ha, or 99.8% of the plan. 23.597 MMT was harvested with the average yield of 1.54 MT/ha. On the same date of 2015, 18.342 MMT of grain had been harvested from 14.075 million ha with the average yield of…
On October 24-30, Ukraine exported 851.5 thousand tons of grains from the seaports, against 1 million tons on the previous week. In particular, wheat shipments reached 426 thousand tons, barley – 124.7 thousand tons, and corn – 300.8 thousand tons. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
An Internet portal for public procurement monitoring – DoZorro – will be launched on November 1, the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry’s press service report. “At 11.00 on November 1, DoZorro project will be launched. This is a new tool for the control over ProZorro procurement system”, the ministry’s website reported. ProZorro is a…
Belarus expects oil delivery from Russia to resume, Igor Lyashenko, Chairman of the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim, reported. According to the source, the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim is in “standby mode” now. The Belneftekhim head also stated that they were considering the possibility of buying not only oil from Russia taking into account the accomplished…