A Research Center for Water Problems will be established in the Khorezm region. The center will be created based on the Khorezm experimental production farm of the Research Institute of Irrigation and Water Management under the Ministry of Water Resources in order to improve water resources management, accounting and improve the reclamation status based on…
Turkmenistan is committed to promoting the socio-economic development of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of reports. Turkmenistan’s commitment is shown in infrastructure projects initiated by Turkmenistan, including the construction of social facilities on the territory of Afghanistan on a gratuitous basis. The construction of the TAPI gas pipeline, electric power and communication lines along…
The Finance Ministry of Ukraine expects that the state budget for 2021 will be approved until mid-December, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said. “This year, the delay in adoption of the state budget is impossible for one simple reason, that we have a session this week and another one in mid-December,” he said. He has…
The Estonian Association of Souvenir Manufacturers and Sellers argues that to ensure the sector’s survival, the support measures applied to the tourism sector must be extended to it, the sector should be compensated for losses caused by the emergency situation and exempted from all taxes until the end of 2021. In a letter to the…
Economic decline in Kyrgyzstan is estimated at 7.5% at year-end, Alexey Kuznetsov, head of the Country Analysis Center of the Eurasian Development Bank, announced during a videoconference. According to him, the economies of Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will reach the pre-crisis level only in two years. The exchange rate of som to the U.S.…
Retail trade turnover of retail trade enterprises in Ukraine grew by 7.3% YoY, to UAH 697.98 billion, in January-October, according to the data provided by the State Statistics Service. The largest volumes of retail sales in January-October were recorded in Kyiv city (almost UAH 160.80 billion), Dnipropetrovsk region (UAH 69.83 billion), Kyiv region (UAH 62.76…
On November 23, the 4th virtual session of the Subcommittee on customs cooperation between Kazakhstan and the EU took place. The session focused on the issues of trade facilitation, freedom of transits, introduction of international customs and trade standards, law enforcement, including the fight against drug trafficking and tobacco smuggling. The parties also debated new…