The Algerian Ministry of National Defense (MDN) confirmed that it had received its first Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters when it released coverage of Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah inspecting Ain Oussera Air Base, 135 km south of Algiers. Two Mi-28NEs were seen fitted with the optional N025E mast-mounted radars and pods for…
DetailsKyiv-based state-run Antonov enterprise and Aerospace Industry Corporation of China (AICC) have signed an agreement on cooperation under the An-225 Mriya aircraft program, the Ukrainian company’s press service has said. “The parties have expressed their intention to cooperate in the long-term outlook, which foresees the construction of the second sample of the modernized An-225 Mriya…
DetailsThe Ukrainian party continues to successfully export products of plant origin to the People`s Republic of China in accordance with the international contracts of Ukraine, the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection declared. According to the protocols of Chinese phytosanitary requirements for the exports of corn, soybeans and barley to the…
DetailsThe new company – Gazprom NGV Europe – is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom Germania GmbH and will continue its CNG business. Gazprom NGV Europe currently operates 50 natural gas filling stations in Germany and has already constructed a further ten filling stations in the Czech Republic and Poland. The establishment of this company will…
DetailsRussia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service believes that a decision to introduce an excise duty on sugar-containing beverages will lead to higher food prices, a lower purchasing power and falling budget revenues, Anna Mirochinenko, director of the service’s chemical and agriculture industries control department, said. “The Federal Antimonopoly Service believes that expanding the list of excisable goods…
DetailsRussia’s Finance Ministry plans to collect additional 2.5 trillion rubles in 2017-2019 to finance budget deficit. The ministry wants to raise taxes, mobilize revenues and deplete sovereign funds in 2017-2019, some of the officials said. The proposals were discussed at a meeting held by the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov on Monday, but no…
DetailsThe Russian government will use pension savings of the working people for 2017 to pay the current retirees, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said. The measure was used for the first time for savings in 2014 to spare more state money for the current pensioners. “We have reached a definite limit, there is no money…
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