“Russian Railways” have recorded a decline in freight transportation for the fourth consecutive year due to intensified sanctions that hit exports and a slowdown in the economy, whose growth practically stalled last year. By the end of 2025, loading on the Russian Railways network – the third longest in the world – decreased by another…
Free exports for Ukraine prove a matter of economic stability for the state and global food security. Therefore, the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture focuses on expanding trade opportunities by bringing the Ukrainian agribusiness closer to EU requirements and increasing quotas. This was stated by Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine, Oleksii…
In the third quarter of 2025, Bulgaria was among the EU countries experiencing the strongest growth in house prices, according to Eurostat data. Across the euro area, the house price index rose by 5.1% YoY, while the EU overall saw a 5.5% increase. Over the same period, prices had grown by 1.6% compared with the…
Last year was a record year for bonds on the Baltic stock exchanges, with companies raising nearly EUR 2 billion in total on the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian exchanges. “The Estonian economy is still sluggish, investor confidence is on a downward trend, and trading activity on the Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange was nothing special last…
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of companies whose owners or ultimate beneficiaries have changed their declared citizenship from Russian or Belarusian has risen sharply. The most common new nationalities are Israeli, Latvian and that of Antigua and Barbuda, according to Latvian Radio. Experts cite two main reasons for the trend: an effort to…
In 2025, Ukraine completed a key stage of public investment management reform and established uniform rules for planning, selecting and financing investment projects at the national, regional and local levels. last year, the Government formed and approved a methodological framework for public investment management, which covered medium-term planning and prioritisation, project preparation and evaluation, the…
Russian oil companies were forced to significantly reduce production in December due to sanctions from Donald Trump’s administration, which disrupted the sale of barrels to the Kremlin’s largest customers – India and China. Last month, oil production volumes in Russia fell by more than 100 thousand barrels per day, to 9.326 million barrels per day,…