Uzbekistan set new requirements to labels of alcohol products. Uzbek Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Certification ordered to make changes in the procedure for marking of labels of the alcoholic products manufactured by enterprises on the territory of Uzbekistan. The order will come into force on October 4. According to new requirements, labels of alcohol…
DetailsNBU governor Valeria Gontareva has informed on the planned reshuffle of the board that would take place in the near future. Gontareva said that Vladyslav Rashkovan was set to complete his duties as NBU deputy governor on August 1, 2016. She underlined that Rashkovan had actively participated in reforming the banking system and implementing the…
DetailsVinnytsia National Technical University has received a license for opening “Arms and military equipment” specialty. The decision was adopted due to the support of the state concern UkrOboronProm, that officially initiated and supported the new specialty creation. “UkrOboronProm brings back prestige to defense industry employment. We contribute to education process improvement and introduction of required…
DetailsIn terms of keeping of the current rate of global climate warming, in the coming years Ukrainian agrarians may face the significant reduction of the yield indices of soybeans, declared the head of the agrometeorology department at the Ukrainian hydrometeorological center Tatiana Adamenko. Increasing of air temperature indices and rising of carbon dioxide content in…
DetailsThis was announced by deputy managing director at Luxoft Ukraine Oleksandra Alkhimovich during the Kyiv International Economic Forum “Technology 4.0 VS Ukrainian industry. How to reduce the gap?”. “We are listed among top 30. Sometimes, our specialists redo the task after highly thought of experts”, she said. The deputy managing director at Luxoft Ukraine noted…
DetailsAccording to the official statistics data, in September-May period of 2015/2016 MY Ukraine exported nearly 3.2 million tons of crude sunflower oil, an increase of 14% YoY (2.8 million tons). The share of exports in the general production volume of the commodity rose to 84%, against 77% in the previous season. During two recent seasons…
DetailsAs of July 4, agrarians harvested 2.04 million tons of early grains and pulses throughout the areas of 576 thousand ha, or 6% of the plan. The average yield totaled 3.54 t/ha. At the same time, on the same date in 2015 agrarians harvested 1.53 million tons of grains throughout 502 thousand ha, with the…
DetailsAccording to the official statistics data, in May Ukraine imported 3.9 thousand tons of rye. Belarus became the single country-supplier of the reporting grain volumes. During March-May Ukraine purchased 11.4 thousand tons of rye from the Republic of Belarus, which exceeded the import volumes from other directions in the previous 10 seasons (2.4 thousand tons).…
DetailsUkraine increased gas production by 2% YoY in January-May 2016 to 8.391 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said. Naftogaz enterprises reduced gas production by 1.1%, to 6.67 bcm, including production of 6.12 bcm by Ukrgazvydobuvannia and a 0.550 bcm by Ukrnafta. Other oil and gas companies operating in Ukraine…
DetailsAccording to the Russian Slon.ru news portal, the Ukrainian economy has been showing stronger growth than that of Russia, according to the official statistics of the two countries. In the fourth quarter of 2015, Ukraine’s GDP did not fall as steeply as Russia’s, and, in the first quarter of 2016, even rose slightly in contrast…
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