Kazakhstan: flights with Turkey to be resumed in third decade of June 2020

A telephone conversation was held between the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Beibut Atamkulov and the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey Adil Karaismailoglu. According to the Telegram channel of the Kazakh Ministry’s press service, the parties have summed up the results of cooperation within the first quarter…

Ukraine: economic cooperation discussed with Poland

The directors of departments of the economy ministries of Ukraine and Poland, Oleksiy Rozhkov and Jan Pawelec, discussed the dynamics of bilateral economic cooperation in the first quarter during a videoconference, Ukraine’s Embassy in Poland reported on Facebook. “The directors of departments of the economy ministries of Ukraine and Poland, Oleksiy Rozhkov and Jan Pawelec,…

Ukraine: poverty to grow in 2020

Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry predicts poverty in Ukraine will have grown to 45% by late 2020, up by 6.5% YoY. According to M.V. Ptukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, poverty in 2019 was 38.5%, down by 4.7%. “Thus, media reports about a “sharp increase in poverty…

Lithuania: government allows flights to Norway

The Lithuanian government has greenlit relaunching regular flights to Norway, making Oslo the fourth destination to be accessible by air from Vilnius. Regular flights have so far been allowed to Frankfurt, Riga and Tallinn. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told the Cabinet that flights from Vilnius to Oslo would resume from May 25, adding that AirBaltic…