A squadron of the newest Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bombers has been set up in the air regiment of Russia’s Eastern Military District deployed to the Khabarovsk region, head of the district press service Colonel Alexander Gordeyev said. “This year, the newest Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bombers, received by the Eastern Military District, formed a new squadron.…
DetailsUkraine’s real gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2016 increased by 2% YoY, which is 0.2% higher than the previously made assessment, according to the website of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. “GDP in the third quarter of 2016 compared with the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted) increased by 0.5%, while compared…
DetailsThe season of 2016/2017 was marked by another rich total harvest of wheat in many of major wheat exporting countries (the harvest even hit a record high in some of them). The exception is the EU, which harvested 16 MMT less wheat (144 MMT) than last year’s bumper crop, according to the USDA. The USDA…
DetailsUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko had a telephone conversation with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde, the press service of the Ukrainian president has said. “Petro Poroshenko and Christine Lagarde coordinated steps within the development of further cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program”, a…
DetailsPresident of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko reckons upon further development of economic cooperation between Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, in particular in the aircraft industry. “Another feature of the creation of the AN-132D aircraft is that it is truly an international project, and I sincerely thank our partners and customers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for…
DetailsInfrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelian expects to sign an agreement on the joint Air Space with the European Union in 2017. “I decided to personally conduct consultations with Madrid and London in order to clearly make the message on the part of Ukraine, that this treaty has technically outgrown its format and turned into…
DetailsThe National Commission for State Regulation of Energy, Housing and Utilities Services (NCER) will reduce the average tariff of Ukrenergo for 2017 by 4.1% compared with the current rate, to 6.054 kopecks per kWh from 6.316 kopecks/kWh (excluding VAT). According to the NCER decision, the Ukrenergo tariff in the first quarter of 2017 will amount…
DetailsAccording to the December balance sheets by NGO “Economic discussion club”, coordinated by the Interdepartmental working group under the Ministry of Economic Development of Ukraine, in September-November the export volumes of sunflower oil from Ukraine totaled 1.33 million tons. The general export volumes of sunflower oil in the current season are forecast at 5.38 million…
DetailsNational joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy saw a 109-fold rise in net profit (by 25.287 billion UAH) in January-September, to 25.521 billion UAH, according to an audited report posted on the company’s website. “Naftogaz saw 25.5 billion UAH of net profit in January-September, which does not include spending on reserves to cover bad debts in the…
DetailsKazakhstan exported 9 KMT of sunseed in October. Although this year’s October deliveries are 6% lower than in the same month in MY 2015/2016, the sunseed market became generally larger for the two months. Thus, 13.7 KMT of sunseed was exported in September-October 2016/2017 against 10.5 KMT a year ago. As expected, the trade cooperation…
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