As of July 26, agrarians harvested 24.78 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 6.71 million ha, or 69% of the plan (9.6 million ha, according to estimations). The average yield totaled 3.69 t/ha. At the same time, on the same date in 2015 agrarians harvested 23.65 million tons of grains…
CEO of the national oil and gas company Naftogaz Andrei Kobolev has pledged the country will have enough gas in the coming winter. “As of now, the country’s underground gas storage facilities hold about 10.3 billion cubic meters of gas. We plan to have about 14.5 billion cubic meter by the end of the season”,…
Turkey is ready to initiate construction of the first line of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said. “We are open for construction of the first line of the Turkish Stream from standpoint of Turkey’s need for natural gas”, the Minister said. “Political decisions are in place to settle the…
Taban Air CEO has announced the operation of a new flight path between Tehran and Russia’s Astrakhan. Founder and CEO of Taban Air Airline Company Asghar Abdollahpour made the announcement saying “the airline will operate flights once a week on a regular basis in order to facilitate commutes of Iranian and Russian businessmen”. The flight…
Armed forces of the Syrian Arab Republic received the new Su-24M2 all-weather attack aircrafts from Russia. The upgraded Su-24M2 front-line bombers were transferred from presence of Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation within rendering military and technical assistance to the Syrian Army in fight against the terrorist group “Islamic State”. According to unconfirmed information, Syria…
Sumy, city in northeastern Ukraine, has received 850 energy efficient street lighting system lamps from UNDP for modernization of street lighting. Deputy Director of the UN Development Program Blerta Cela gave a certificate for handing over these devices to the Mayor Oleksandr Lysenko on July 27 at Sumy city council. “Sumy authorities are focusing now…
Russia resumes activity of the joint intergovernmental Russian-Turkish commission on trade and economic cooperation. The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed the corresponding decree of the Government #706 dated July 22, the Ministry of Economic Development reported. The document provides for resumption of the negotiation process between Russia and Turkey on the…