Bryndza is an authentic sort of cheese, made by Hutsuls, the indigenous people of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. It is made in summer on high mountain pastures from mountain sheep’s milk according to the traditions that date back to the 15th century. Hutsul Sheep Bryndza became the first Ukrainian product to receive an official Geographical…
DetailsThe Baku Stock Exchange held an auction on the placement of short-term notes of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) on December 12. The Baku Stock Exchange raised 170 million manats ($100.2 million) from the Azerbaijani banks. The supply exceeded the demand 5.8-fold. 17 investors made 29 applications worth over 991.8 million manats ($584.5 million).…
DetailsIn July-October the production volumes of wheat flour in the Republic of Kazakhstan totaled 919 thousand tons, down by 16% YoY. The high prices of raw materials, slowing down of sales of large-scale batches of grains by agrarians, as well as reducing of the demand of the major importers made its impact on the production…
DetailsIn January-November the Freeport of Riga handled 30,040,600 tons of cargo, down by 9.4% YoY. Transshipment of coal fell by 225.9%, to 9,593,200 tons, and oil products – by 10%, to 3,397,600 tons, while wood pellets grew by 21.6%, to 1,007,900 tons, and ore – by 6.8%, to 531,100 tons. The port’s container throughput grew…
DetailsThe Deposit Guarantee Fund has completed the liquidation of PJSC Union Standard Bank, according to the Fund’s press service. The Fund stated that in line with Article 53 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Deposit Guarantee System” on December 11 relevant documents were submitted to the United State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs…
DetailsThe State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) has started using the Waze navigation system. “Ukravtodor has started working with the Waze navigation system. From now on, all complaints about roads from users of the program are collected in a single database, which is available in real time to the road service,” the agency’s…
DetailsA document has been signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan in order to further develop international car transportation between the two countries, Head of the Public Relations department of Azerbaijan’s State Road Transport Service Nurida Allahyarova has said. In connection with the fulfillment of the requirements of the bilateral agreement between the countries, a regular meeting…
DetailsOn December 10 construction company ReRe buve 1 handed over to State Real Estate (VNI) the building of New Riga Theatre, as confirmed by VNI chairman Andris Varna. “A compromise and agreement have been reached with the construction company. It was done in the interest of society. The contract is over and the building returned…
DetailsA new Bishkek – Novosibirsk train route has been launched, press service of Kyrgyz Temir Zholu has reported. According to it, route No. 385/386 Bishkek – Novosibirsk and Novosibirsk – Bishkek has been operating since December 8. The train leaves the capital of Kyrgyzstan every eight days. Ticket price is about 8,000 soms (depending on…
DetailsThe volume of hryvnia deposits in Ukrainian banks in November grew by 1.1%, to UAH 582.789 billion, and those in foreign currency (in dollar terms) – by 1.7%, to $16.060 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported. Since year-start the volume of hryvnia deposits has increased by 7.9%, and foreign currency – by 20.2%. Hryvnia…
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