In October, compared to October 2019, the average level of producer prices in Latvian industry fell by 1.3%. Prices of products sold on the domestic market have fallen by 3%, but prices of exported products have grown by 0.2%. Prices of products exported to euro area countries rose by 0.4% and prices of products exported…
Throughout the past week, the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan has been conducting interventions selling dollars. The National Bank sold $21.4 million on November 16. The next day, the bank again entered the foreign exchange market with an intervention of $500,000. On November 18, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic sold $1.3 million. On November…
A telephone conversation took place between the acting Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Artem Novikov and the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov. Artem Novikov thanked for the humanitarian assistance provided by the Government of Uzbekistan as part of measures to counter the spread of coronavirus infection. During the conversation, the parties discussed issues of…
The consolidated state budget for 2021 projects about UAH 27 billion to finance culture development. “The sphere of culture development is a priority of the state as evidenced by the funds laid down in the country’s budget,” Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko said. “Let’s compare the expenditures on culture in 2020 and 2016.…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed the government to develop a comprehensive program of measures to support small and medium-sized businesses during a lockdown. The head of state said this in a vlog posted on his Facebook page. “I instructed the government to develop a very important program of measures in the coming days, which…
The 2021 state budget bill has passed its second reading at the Riigikogu. The bill puts state budget expenditures at EUR 13 billion and revenues at EUR 11 billion and is based also on Ministry of Finance forecasts for Estonia’s GDP to rise by 4.5% in 2021, having been projected to fall by 5.5% this…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine hosted negotiations between Uzbek Republican Commodity Exchange (UzEX) delegation and Ukrainian agricultural producers of sugar, sunflower oil, flour, grain, meat and other goods in order to discuss supplies to the Republic of Uzbekistan. Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Senik took part in the meeting organized within the…