At least 726.9 million soms are needed to complete the construction of Tamchi-Cholpon-Ata road, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. 212 million soms are provided for the reconstruction of Balykchy-Tamchi-Cholpon-Ata-Korumdu road according to a list of facilities and construction projects financed from the republican budget and approved on February 15.…
DetailsTax revenues of the Azerbaijani state budget reached almost 2.3 billion manats in January-April, exceeding the forecast by 6.3%, said the country’s Ministry of Taxes on May 5. Revenues through the Ministry of Taxes are forecast in the amount of 7.51 billion manats in Azerbaijan in 2017, or 46.2% of total volume of budget revenues.…
DetailsAccording to forecasts of the US Department of Agriculture, in the new season the harvest volumes of wheat in Kazakhstan will decrease by 13% YoY, to 13 million tons. Domestic consumption of wheat will keep at the current season level – 6.9 million tons. A decline in wheat usage for seeds will compensate for growing…
DetailsSince the beginning of 2017, Ukraine has sent most of its honey exports to the United States, totaling $12.6 million, the press service of the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reports. “The United States has been the major importer of Ukrainian honey during the period. The export deliveries of honey to this country came…
DetailsPresident Shavkat Mirziyoyev singed a decree to create the free economic zones Nukus-pharm, Zomin-pharm, Kosonsoy-pharm, Sirdaryo-pharm, Boysun-pharm, Bustonlik-pharm, and Parkent-pharm, in efforts to draw investment to the pharmaceutical industry, produce high-quality medicine, boost Karakalpakstan, Djizzak, Namangan, Sirdarya, Surkhandarya and Tashkent’s industrial capacities, and create new jobs. With pharmacy bearing much importance, Uzbekistan has always paid…
DetailsOTP Bank in January-March saw a 14.6% fall in net profit, to UAH 279.492 million. Its net interest income narrowed by 37.5%, to UAH 483.17 million. Not taking into account spending on reserves, net interest income totaled UA 447.34 million (up by 18.8% YoY). Commission income grew by 22.1%, to UAH 249.063 million. The bank…
DetailsThe Ukrainian Automobile Corporation (UkrAVTO) at the end of April supplied two first low-deck medium class city buses ZAZ10C out of 11 foreseen in the contract to Warbus (Poland), the press service of the corporation reported. Buses made by Zaporizhia Automobile Plant (ZAZ) after their presentation to city authorities are used in the streets of…
DetailsIn January-March the average wage of Ukrainians working in the mining and quarrying sector totaled UAH 8,533, up by 24.7% from the average wage of those employed in the industrial sector. This is the data released by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. In particular, in January-March the average wage of Ukrainians working in the…
DetailsTajikistan’s oil product imports are continuing to decrease while the country’s liquefied gas imports are continuing to increase. Over the first quarter of this year, Tajikistan’s oil product imports have fallen by 12% while its liquefied gas imports have risen by nearly 3% YoY. According to the statistical data from the Customs Service, Tajikistan has…
DetailsNew passenger car sales in Ukraine in January-April grew by 29.6% YoY, to 23,063 cars, AUTO-Consulting has reported. In January-March the market grew by 35%. A total of 6,600 new cars were sold in April, and this was 17.3% more than a year ago and 5.6% less than in March. Toyota was the leader with…
DetailsIn January-April Belarus’ gold and foreign currency reserves went up by 3.7%, if calculated in accordance with methods of the International Monetary Fund, to $5.1 billion, the Information and PR Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus reported. According to the preliminary data, as of May the country’s gold and foreign currency…
DetailsHorizont Holding Company is set to step up the effort to strengthen its international manufacturing ties and enter new markets, Horizont Director General Yuri Predko declared. The Belarusian company views Slovakia as a promising partner. Yuri Predko said that a number of cooperation agreements were signed during the Belarusian-Slovak Business Forum held in Bratislava in…
DetailsA strategy for state-owned banks being designed will focus on settling the problem of competition between the financial institutions, first of all PrivatBank and Oschadbank (both based in Kyiv), Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has said. “Oschadbank is competing with PrivatBank. I cannot criticize managers of the two banks for competition: they are commercial structures,…
DetailsIn May Ukraine is expected to export 583 million kilowatt-hour of electricity to Moldova and Eastern European countries, according to the forecast balance of Ukraine’s integrated energy system for May. All types of electricity-generating facilities in Ukraine’s integrated energy system will produce 11.608 billion kilowatt-hour of electricity. Meanwhile, Energoatom National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of…
DetailsGermany’s Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) will provide 7 million euros for the rural housing finance in Tajikistan. An agreement on this subject has been signed by Ms. Kristin Laabs, Country Director, KfW Development Bank Tajikistan, and Mr. Nematullo Hikmatullozoda, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan. The German and the Tajik governments reportedly agreed…
DetailsCrosco Integrated Drilling & Well Services Ltd. (Croatia) has won 2 out of 15 lots of a tender of the public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia to carry out drilling works in Kharkiv and Poltava regions in 2017-2019. According to a report in the ProZorro e-procurement system, Ukrgazvydobuvannia seeks to sign a contract for UAH 792.581 million…
DetailsPrivatBank states it will increase its payment terminal network by 20% with Verifone services, about 20,000 Verifone VX 520 terminals are expected to be deployed by September, the bank’s press service reports. “PrivatBank aims at increasing its network for payment and contactless cards acceptance by 20% in 2017. Verifone has been selected as the payment…
DetailsThe World Bank on May 3 approved of $225.7 million in financing from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Nurek Rehabilitation Project. According to the World Bank Dushanbe Office, the World Bank financing, one-quarter in grants and three-quarters in credits, will refurbish the Nurek Hydropower Plant (HPP) that will help secure electricity supply in…
DetailsThe National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) has stopped operations of six more lending agencies. On May 1, Tajik central bank issued resolution on withdrawing licenses of the microlending agencies Asrina (Khujand) and Armon (Dushanbe). Asrina and Armon reportedly failed to comply with the NBT’s minimum capital requirements for the microlending organizations and the NBT withdrew…
DetailsState-controlled Oschadbank (Kyiv) in 2016 received UAH 464.085 million of net profit against UAH 12.273 billion of net loss for 2015. According to the financial report of the bank, its net interest income in 2016 was UAH 2.677 billion, while in 2015 this figure was “minus” UAH 9.844 billion. In addition, the bank received UAH…
DetailsLatvian government approved the new state budget priorities funding process, the Finance Ministry reported. During the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on May 3, members of the government reviewed a draft that provided for a new order for financing processes of budget priorities of different ministries starting with the preparation process of the 2018…
DetailsLatvian State Revenue Service has registered in its unified database multiple new cash register models, opening the way for users to replace their existing cash registers with new models that comply with updated requirements. Compliance certificate has been issued to CHD 3050, CHD 3050 U, CHD 2050 and CHD 7 cash register models. These models…
DetailsBolat Zhamishev, Chairman of the Board of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK), has given his outlook on possible devaluation of the Kazakh national currency. “Generally speaking, we do not see any expectations or drastic changes of exchange rate dynamics. The national currency is now strengthening. It is not improbable it will stream back and…
DetailsTajikistan’s investment portfolio now includes 68 projects totaling 2.85 billion according to the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest). Tajikistan’s investment portfolio, in particular, includes 25 grant based projects, 16 loan based projects and 27 mixed-finance projects. “More than $1.2 billion have been drawn in the framework of these projects since the…
DetailsTajikistan’s largest commercial banks – Tojik Sodirot Bonk (TSB) and Agroinvestbonk – will hardly recover from recent shocks quickly. It will take them years to restore their financial assets. Two other distressed banks – Tajrpombank and Fononbank – have been declared bankrupt. Until recently TSB and Agroinvestbonk have occupied a half of the country’s banking…
DetailsFour kilometers of four-lane road will be built in Karakol town in Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan this year, the city mayor Daniyar Arpachiev reported. “As of today, the most problematic roads are central ones. We have been raising the issue of repairing Toktogul, Abdrakhmanov and Kydyr-Ake Streets since the last year. About 10 kilometers of…
DetailsUkraine in January-April increased transit of natural gas through its gas transportation system by 22.5% (5.602 billion cubic meters) compared to January-April 2016, to 30.53 billion cubic meters, according to live data from PJSC Ukrtransgaz. Gas transit through Ukraine to Europe in the past four months amounted to 29.388 billion cubic meters and to Moldova…
DetailsThe transition bank created on the basis of Diamantbank declared insolvent earlier would have enough attractive assets, and the bank had a potential investor, Diamantbank Board Chairman Oleh Khodachuk has said. “In four days after the introduction of interim administration the bank’s employees carried out titanic work resulted in submitting an application of a qualified…
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