On October 20, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry raised UAH 7.155 billion towards the state budget as a result of auctions on the placement of domestic government bonds, the ministry’s press service report. The Finance Ministry offered investors two issues of hryvnia-denominated bonds, with a maturity of three months and one year, and one issue of…
The main objectives of Latvia’s defense sector for 2021 will be modernization of the country’s army and enhancement of its cyber security, according to the legislative draft on the 2021 state budget. Defense Ministry’s planned expenditures for 2020 reach EUR 548,332,786, whereas next year’s expenditures are EUR 693,521,903. It is planned to spend EUR 201,863,149…
The industrial output producer price index fell by 0.4% in September, compared with August, and by 2.4% YoY, state agency Statistics Estonia reported. Eveli Sokman, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that in September, as compared with August, the producer price index was affected the most by price falls in electricity and heat energy supply,…
The number of passengers serviced by Ukrainian transport companies in January-September decreased by 54.4% (2.2-fold) YoY, to 37.1 billion passenger-kilometers, according to the data provided by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Over the reporting period, 1.90 billion passengers used the services of domestic transport companies, down by 40%. In particular, the number of passengers…
Since the beginning of 2020, Kherson region has received UAH 3.5 million in tourist tax payments, according to the Main Department of the State Tax Service of Kherson region. “As of October 15, revenues from tourist tax payments from legal entities and individuals amounted to UAH 3.5 million. Due to the adaptive quarantine, a shortfall…
The national airline Nordica is waiting for Polish LOT to approve a contract that will see Estonian company acquire 49% of joint subsidiary Regional Jet, Nordica CEO Erki Urva has announced. Urva said that Nordica hadn’t received the EUR 30 million promised by the state because its precondition was that first, the contract with the…
386 new houses were built in the flood-hit Maktaaral district, the press service of the Governor of Turkestan region reported. A new micro-district was built in Myrzakent village, destroyed houses were repaired in the flood-affected region. 386 families celebrate today housewarming. The Kazakh Vice Premier, Roman Sklyar, Uzbek Water Management Minister Shavkat Khamrayev and Governor…