The Pension Fund of Ukraine has approved the average wage for May in the amount of 9,546 hryvnias and 32 kopecks. “The indicator of the average salary for May that, in accordance with the law of Ukraine on compulsory state pension insurance, is taken into account for calculating pensions, has been approved as 9,546 hryvnias…
The Drug Supply Department of Kyrgyzstan has failed to set limit retail and wholesale prices for medicines, Aisha Sulaimanova, head of the Pricing Monitoring Sector of the Drug Supply Department of the Ministry of Health, has announced. A resolution was adopted in 2019 on approval of temporary rules for regulating the prices of medicines in…
The economy will not be restored to its pre-coronavirus crisis state, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications’ deputy secretary general for economic development Viljar Lubi has declared. “On the one hand, this is impossible because it is unsustainable and no country is even trying to do that. At the same time, there is a…
According to the Health Ministry, local pharmaceutical producers are currently working at full capacity in Kazakhstan. It is also said the pharmaceutical producers are now using a three-shift system to provide constant supplies of their products to the retail market as well as to ensure free supplies of pharmaceuticals to medical facilities. According to the…
The Finance Ministry attracted UAH 8.3 billion to the state budget following auctions on the placement of domestic government bonds on July 14, the ministry’s press service has reported on Facebook. “At auctions on the placement of domestic government bonds, the Finance Ministry offered investors three issues of hryvnia securities with a maturity of three…
The United States has increased COVID-19 related funding for Ukraine by $1.8 billion. “Earlier this month, the United States announced an increase in COVID-19 related funding for Ukraine, from $15.5 million to nearly $17.3 million. The newest funding of nearly $1.8 million will support the International Organization for Migration’s activities in eastern Ukraine, supporting internally…
Over half of the enterprises that make up Georgia’s packaging value chain lost more than 50% of their income to lockdown and 83% considered the pandemic a significant threat to their continued operation, said a new study of the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) based on interviews with over 500 companies.…