Bulgaria marked its first official euro transactions shortly after the stroke of midnight on January 1, as the country officially adopted the single European currency. According to the payment service provider Borica AD, the very first successful euro withdrawal was recorded at 00:20 at an ATM in the popular seaside resort of Sunny Beach. Earlier,…
This year, growth in real estate prices is likely to continue, according to Andris Boze, Member of the Management Board of housing developer and construction company YIT Latvija. He notes that housing prices in Latvia are still around 30-40% lower than in Lithuania or Estonia, and if the economic environment remains stable, a natural convergence…
The top 10% of earners in Lithuania rank among the world’s highest-income groups, according to a ranking published by Euronews. Lithuania placed 18th in the ranking of average after-tax income of the wealthiest 10% of residents, calculated using purchasing power standards, or PPS, based on 2017 prices. The country scored 47.806 PPS, ranking just below…
Communities from different regions of the country are providing transport support to Odesa so that the city can ensure passenger transportation. Due to the difficult situation with electricity supply in the Odesa region caused by massive russian shelling, problems with passenger transport have arisen. Almost 40% of Odesa’s public transport runs on electricity and cannot…
Car deliveries from China to Russia in January-November amounted to $8.1 billion, calculated the Gaidar Institute based on data from the Chinese customs administration. Due to the increase in the recycling fee, they have halved, its analysts write. In total, over 11 months, China, according to data from the national automakers’ association CAAM, exported 6.34…
Gazprom’s deliveries to Europe at the end of 2025 have decreased by another 44%, to 18 billion cubic meters. This was reported by Reuters, citing statistics from the “Turkish Stream” – the last operating pipeline through which Russian gas is supplied to European countries. The volumes of gas pumped to what was once Gazprom’s largest…
The volume of Russian oil supplies to India in December 2025 will amount to about 1.1 million barrels per day, which will be the lowest figure since November 2022, writes Bloomberg, citing data from Kpler. In November, India bought 1.77 million barrels of crude from Russia per day. According to estimates, in the second week…