Georgian Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili said calculations showed Georgian customers would save about GEL 200 million ($69 million) thanks to the Government initiatives of importing medicines from the Turkish market and implementing reference prices on the domestic market this year. In his comments to journalists following the weekly Government meeting, Azarashvili said the Government’s expectations…
Eyeing the upcoming heating season, churches in Lithuania are also preparing ways to cut costs. “Heating bills from 2021 have left us with a large debt and we have asked to be allowed to pay it off in installments before the next season,” says Andrius Nenenas, pastor of Vilnius Bernardine Church. Last year, during the…
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has called on Swedish businesses to resume operations in Ukraine. “I call on Swedish businesses to actively explore and resume operations in Ukraine. For instance, ScaniaGroup is already increasing business activities. Others should follow suit. Especially IKEA, which has abandoned six Ukrainian factories since February 24 –…
Six vessels carrying Ukrainian agricultural products left Ukraine’s Black Sea ports on August 28 under an UN-brokered grain deal, Turkey’s Ministry of Defense said on its Twitter account. “As of this morning, six more ships have departed from Ukrainian ports with grain loads,” the statement said. It added that work was underway to load ships…
Starting from September 1, the number of trolleybuses and buses in Chisinau will be increased. The head of the General Directorate of Public Transport and Communications, Vitalie Mihalache, made the statement at an August 29 meeting of the city hall services. The increase in the number of transport units is carried out in the context…
State-owned office buildings are expected to cut their energy consumption by up to 1.5 million euros. Turto Bankas (Property Bank), the manager of Lithuanian state-owned properties, is launching an energy-saving initiative titled “putinOut” in which around 500 properties, mostly housing state institutions, are encouraged to cut their energy consumption by at least 10%. The initiative,…
A pocket guide – Green fertilizers in the drought conditions of the Republic of Moldova – was published with the support of the Farmer-to-Farmer Program, the Moldova Organic Value Chain Alliance (MOVCA) reported. The publication includes ideas for combining crops used to fertilize the soil, examples of green manures in rotation, useful tips related to…