The State Tax Service and the Business Ombudsman Council jointly implemented the first tax mediation case in the history of Ukraine. This was reported on her Facebook page by the Acting Head of the State Tax Service Lesya Karnaukh. “The tax mediation mechanism has already proven its effectiveness. Thanks to the constructive work of the…
Poland has signed an agreement for a new anti-drone system that it claims will be the first of its kind in Europe. The network is intended to protect Poland’s eastern borders, where, in September last year, around 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace in an unprecedented incursion. “We are creating an unprecedented, state-of-the-art system,” declared…
The beverage producer AS Amber Latvijas balzams had submitted an application to the Riga City Court seeking the initiation of a legal protection (restructuring) process, the company said on January 30 in a disclosure to the Nasdaq Riga stock exchange. The application has been filed in order to restructure the company’s financial obligations. The purpose…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to improve the mechanism for insuring property against war risks. The changes will take effect and apply to property damaged or destroyed from January 1. From now on, not only real estate but also production equipment (machine tools, apparatus, instruments, devices, etc.) used in core activities will…
The total number of registered passenger cars in Russia has decreased for the first time in 25 years. At the end of 2025, there were 52.8 million cars registered with the traffic police, which is 0.18% less than a year earlier. Thus, almost 100 thousand cars were deregistered over the year. This follows from the…
The price of oil that would allow the government to cover all expenses and achieve a balanced budget amounted to $93 per barrel in 2025, according to analysts at Alfa-Bank. Compared to 2024, the budget-balancing price increased by $4, compared to 2023 – by $7, and compared to the pre-war 2021 – by $21. As…
The commissioning of the “Karat” microchip factory in the Novokoltsovsky district of Yekaterinburg has been postponed until the end of 2027, according to the head of the Middle Urals Development Corporation (KRSU), Andrey Misiura. Previously, it was planned that the enterprise would be launched by the end of 2026, and it would meet 100% of…