Belarus to step up cooperation with Zimbabwe

Belarus and Zimbabwe intend to step up cooperation in trade and economic affairs, the press service of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia reported after Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Igor Petrishenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Zimbabwe to the Russian Federation with concurrent accreditation to Belarus Mike Nicholas Sango…

Azerbaijan: investments in Turkey to go up

Azerbaijan plans to increase investments in Turkey up to $20 billion until 2018, said Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev. “Currently, the volume of Azerbaijani investments in Turkey totals $8 billion”, said Mustafayev. He also noted that Turkey had invested nearly $10 billion in Azerbaijan. More than 1,700 Azerbaijani companies operate in Turkey and the number…

Kazakhstan: 90% of Industrialization Map projects working at full capacity in Karaganda region

71 projects have been implemented in Karaganda region under the Industrialization Map. 54 of them are running at full capacity now, according to Tolegen Igembayev, Head of the Regional Department for Industry and Industrial-Innovative Development. 94 projects worth more than 1350 billion tenge with the creation of over 11,000 jobs have been included in the…

Ukraine: flour production down in H1 2016

In January-June Ukrainian flour milling enterprises produced 888 thousand tons of flour, down by 7% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine declared. At the same time, the production volumes in June totaled 132 thousand tons, up by 0.7% MoM and down by 14.6% YoY. In January-June the production volumes of crude sunflower oil in…