Turkmenistan will start wheat-harvesting campaign in the Ahal, Balkan, Lebap and Mary provinces on June 7 and in the Dashoguz province on June 14, the country’s Agriculture Ministry reported on June 3. It is planned to harvest 1.6 million tons of wheat in 2017. Turkmenistan harvested 1.6 million tons of wheat in 2016. The country…
DetailsOn June 2, Latvian airline airBaltic received the fourth out of twenty ordered Bombardier CS300 aircraft. airBaltic plans to expand its existing fleet of CS300 aircraft to 8 in 2017. Airline’s representatives say a more modern fleet will help expand and service 13 new destinations, as well as increase ticket sales by 15%. “The fourth…
DetailsThe European Parliament has decided to hold interinstitutional negotiations on granting Ukraine additional trade preferences, having deleted two agricultural tariffs, wheat and processed tomatoes, and one industrial tariff, urea, from the annexes. The vote took place as part of the EP plenary session in Brussels on June 1. The decision was adopted by 475 votes…
DetailsOut of the “storm” of negative factors Belarus has emerged with an ideal macroeconomy, Alexander Zaborovsky, Chief Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, declared during the international conference held in Minsk on June 2 to discuss economic security in a globalized world. The expert pointed…
DetailsJapan’s government will provide a grant for implementation of the second phase of the Project for Improvement of Dushanbe International Airport. According to Tajikistan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF), a grant agreement for 356 million Japanese yens was signed in Dushanbe on March 31 between the government of Tajikistan, represented by Abdusalom Qurboniyon, Minister of Finance,…
DetailsDart airline from June launched regular flights on the Kyiv-Bologna (Italy) route from Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport. According to a press release from the airport, flights will be carried out on Tuesdays and Fridays on board modern Airbus A320/319 aircraft. Departure from Kyiv will be at 09:50, departure from Bologna at 12:35. Dart airline has…
DetailsUkraine added 1.608 billion cubic meters of gas to underground storage in May, according to operational data from Ukrtransgaz. Inventories increased by 24%, to 10.043 billion cubic meters as of the end of May, up from 8.1 billion cubic meters as of March 22, when the heating season ended. The total was 9.6% more than…
DetailsUkraine’s economic losses from the conflict in Donbas in 2016 amounted to 20.4% of GDP, according to statistics data given in the Global Peace Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia. According to its data, the economic cost of violence in the country is 20.4% of GDP, or $66.749 billion…
DetailsKazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astana has announced the launch of a new route between Uralsk and Frankfurt starting from June 14. Flights will be operated once a week on comfortable Airbus-320. Local authorities instructed local border service to improve the quality of service at the international terminal of Uralsk airport. (Kazinform/Business World Magazine)
DetailsTajikistan’s Communications Service building design has won the five-star Asia Pacific Property Award 2017 for the Best Commercial High-rise Architecture. The building design has been worked out by the design office of Tajik Architects’ Union. The design authors are chief architect Bahrom Yusupov and architects K. Naimov, R. Sharipov and H. Ayubjonov. Yusupov says the…
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