The Ukrainian Finance Ministry and the World Bank have signed an agreement on a EUR 300-million loan to continue the implementation of projects in the field of economic recovery, the ministry’s press service has said. “On December 20, Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and World Bank Regional Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Arup Banerjee…
In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the State Food and Consumer Service opened or restored access to foreign markets for 81 groups of Ukrainian goods in 21 countries, as well as helped more than 200 Ukrainian companies start exporting goods or operating abroad, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said presenting the successes of…
SIA Jurmalas siltums plans to increase the heating tariff in the city by 8.5% starting from February 1, 2022, according to the official entry in the Latvian Herald. On December 20, Jurmalas siltums submitted to the Public Utilities Commission its proposed heating energy tariff plan and justifications for approval. The current heating energy production tariff…
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially confirmed that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest potash fertilizer producers and exporters, are not binding on Lithuania’s state-owned railways. Belaruskali, considered a lifeline for the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, exports a large share of its production via Lithuania. Lietuvos…
Nominal Gross Domestic Product in Georgia equaled 15.99 billion GEL in the third quarter of 2021 and real GDP grew by 9.1%, while the GDP deflator (inflation measure) increased by 9.4% in the reporting period, preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) showed. The highest real GDP growth was registered in the…
On December 18, negotiations of the Uzbek delegation taking part in an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were held in Islamabad, with acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi. During the conversation, the parties discussed the current state of bilateral relations, the prospects…
December 20 saw the market price of electricity triple compared to December 19 in the Estonian price area of the Nord Pool exchange. The average price was EUR 88.01 on December 19 and EUR 269.82 on December 20. The price was the highest between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. hitting EUR 468 per megawatt-hour. Prices…