The Dushanbe mayor’s office is taking efforts to curb rise in prices of basic food products during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, according to the Dushanbe administration press center. By Dushanbe mayor’s decree merchants and farmers selling their products at Dushanbe’s Dehqon, Shohmansour and Sakhovat bazaars will be exempt from paying one-time fee, a…
DetailsThe implementation of the Sustainable Development Doctrine will allow Ukraine to achieve the level of Western countries by 2030 and ensure an annual growth of 10%, Ukrainian parliamentarian Serhiy Taruta said while presenting the publication titled “Ukraine 2030: The Doctrine of Sustainable Development.” The parliamentarian who is the author of the idea of writing the…
DetailsThe average price for agricultural products set by Ukraine’s farmers in January-April increased by 11% YoY, the State Statistics Service reports. Prices for plant products in the reporting period rose by 8.5%, while those of livestock products went up by 23.4%, according to the report. In April against March, agricultural products grew in price by…
DetailsThe European Union-funded project, Technical Assistance to Support Pension Reform in Tajikistan, was launched in Dushanbe. According to the European Union Delegation to Tajikistan, the project will run for over three years (until January 2020) and will provide support to the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions (ASIP) in the areas of Information and Communications…
DetailsRetail trade in Ukraine in January-Apri posted a 5.8% increase YoY, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. The highest increase in retail trade was recorded in Kirovohrad, Lviv, Poltava, Odessa, and Zhytomyr regions. In particular, Kirovohrad region saw a 9.3% increase, Lviv region boosted retail trade by 9.2%. Retail growth in Poltava region…
DetailsThe territory of Dushanbe will be extended from the current 12,700 hectares to 25,000 hectares by 2040 at the expense of territories of Varzob, Hisor and Roudaki districts. Government’s decree approving the Dushanbe municipal redevelopment plan was reportedly signed on April 28. Dushanbe’s population is expected to reach 936,000 by 2025 and 1.176 million by…
DetailsUzbekistan’s state power company Uzbekenergo and Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Energy signed a memorandum envisioning cooperation in the transit of electricity from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan through Uzbekistan’s power grid. The memorandum was signed during Uzbek president’s working visit to Turkmenistan. Under the terms of the memorandum, Turkmenistan will deliver electricity to Uzbekistan in exchange…
DetailsThe State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a tender for the right to build small hydro power plants. Legal entities of Kyrgyzstan, as well as foreign legal entities can participate in the tender. In case a foreign legal entity is chosen the winner of the tender (prior to…
DetailsInspecting an advertisement published on Facebook, Latvian Food and Veterinary Service uncovered illegal trade of sheep meat, canned meat storage and meat product distribution organized in an office building on Selpils Street, Riga. Upon performing a control purchase, inspectors found that tins with meat were either not labeled or improperly labeled, making it impossible to…
DetailsKyiv City Administration has signed a memorandum of cooperation with a Chinese consortium, consisting of China Railway International Group and China Pacific Construction Group, for the implementation of a project to build the fourth subway line in the city. According to a posting on the administration’s website, Deputy Head of Kyiv City Administration Mykola Povoroznik…
DetailsThe European Commission has placed Ukraine’s Urga Airline (Kropyvnytsky) on the EU Air Safety List of non-European airlines that do not meet international safety standards and are therefore subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union. According to a press release of the European Commission, the company is placed on the…
DetailsUkraine as of May 19 has sown grains and leguminous crops on 6.8 million hectares, or 94% of the forecast. According to the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, spring wheat was sown on 172,000 hectares (or 97% of the plan), spring barley on 1.56 million hectares (95%), oats on 197,000 hectares (95%), peas on…
DetailsPublic joint-stock company Sberbank (Kyiv) from May 30 will close the account at Deutsche Bank, the bank has reported on its website. “Due to the closure of the account of Sberbank in the U.S. dollars at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, starting from May 30 we ask to use the account at The Bank of…
DetailsIn January-April Azerbaijan increased the exports of agricultural products by 44% YoY, the Minister of Agriculture of Azerbaijan, Heydar Asadov declared. According to the minister, Azerbaijan plans to increase the exports of food products, in terms of current problem with food security in the world. During recent 4 months, the country increased export volumes mainly…
DetailsSince 2012, the exports of Ukrainian condensed milk and cream to Israel have increased more than 5-fold, to $1.4 million, the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club reported. The Ukrainian Agribusiness Club experts also noted a 1.8-fold increase in the size of Ukrainian ice cream exports to Israel. In 2016, the share of exports to Israel in total…
DetailsTajikistan is interested in assembling cotton-farming tractors made by the Belarusian company MTZ, representatives of the company declared after a delegation of the Tajikistan government visited the enterprise. The Tajikistan government is considering organizing the joint production of tractors. The tractors may then be sold not only in Tajikistan but also in the entire Central…
DetailsTajikistan has been placed at the 128th position among the 190 countries in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index for the year 2017. The index was released as part of the World Bank’s annual report Doing Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All. This report had revised Tajikistan’s rank to 128 from earlier 132nd…
DetailsIt is difficult to build roads in Kyrgyzstan, so aviation is needed, the Minister of Transport and Roads Zhamshitbek Kalilov said. According to him, the ICAO leadership for the first time pays an official visit to Kyrgyzstan. “We understand that it is extremely important for a mountainous country to pay attention to air traffic. This…
DetailsIn April, Latvian airline airBaltic carried 287,560 passengers to destinations in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East. This is a 26% increase when compared with last year. The airline carried a total of 876,328 passengers in the first four months of 2017. In April, the airline performed 4,043 flights, up by 9% YoY,…
DetailsLast year, Russia was Latvia’s fourth largest external trade partner. Investment-wise, Russia was on the second place in terms of direct investments in Latvia, as reported by the Latvian-Russian regional cooperation group at a meeting in Pleskava. “As a strong wall is built from smaller bricks, our countries’ cooperation is made up of cooperation instances…
DetailsBelarus and Tajikistan will be expanding cooperation in the agricultural sector. The matter was discussed at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry on May 18. Opening the session, Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats noted that in Q1 the organizations making part…
DetailsThe strategy of development of PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia for 2017-2021 provides for a comprehensive modernization of rolling stock and infrastructure, company chairman Wojciech Balczun has said. “In the next five years we plan to invest UAH 130-150 billion,” he said at a press conference in Kharkiv. According to him, in particular, it is planned to upgrade…
DetailsIn January-April the production volumes of agricultural commodities in Ukraine decreased by 0.3% YoY, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported.
In particular, agricultural enterprises lowered the production indices by 0.6%, while households of the population increased them by 0.1%.
In 2016 the growth of agricultural production totaled more than 6%. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)
Russia’s Yamal Airlines is expected to start operating flights to Tajikistan from Zhukovsky Airport from July 1. According to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) of Tajikistan, Yamal Airlines will conduct three weekly flights to Dushanbe and three weekly flights to Khujand. An official source at a MoT said that they had coordinated the issue of…
DetailsBelarus has imposed a temporary restriction on the import of live poultry and hatching eggs from Tatarstan due to the outbreak of avian flu. A temporary restriction on the import of products from Tatarstan to Belarus has been introduced from May 17. It applies to live birds, hatching eggs, wild, zoo and circus susceptible animals,…
DetailsIn 2016, the volume of electricity produced in combined heat and power plants kept increasing and accounted for 3,767.4 gigawatt hours (GWh), which constitutes 59% of the total volume of electricity generated in Latvia. Compared to 2015, last year the volume of electricity produced in CHP plants grew by 7%, and the volume of heat…
DetailsAccording to initial estimates, in January-March Belarus’ gross domestic product totaled Br30.6 billion, up by 0.5% in comparable prices as against the same period a year earlier, the National Statistics Committee of Belarus reported.
In January-April the GDP deflator index amounted to 106.9% as against the same period of last year. (BelTA/Business World Magazine)