The commercial effect from the projects to be implemented in the R&D park Belbiograd is supposed to reach $500 million by 2023, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Sergei Kilin reported. The official said that 26 projects had been fleshed out so far. By 2023 the projects…
On January 18-22, Spain will host the 37th International Tourism Fair FITUR-2017. This is the first and major tourism event of 2017. Last year some 9,500 organizations, firms and associations of the tourism industry from 165 countries attended the fair. 125 thousand specialists and 97 thousand visitors took part in it. This year the national…
Turkmenistan has finalized the preparation of the technical assignment for the creation of the next (second) national satellite, the functions of which will include Earth remote sensing. TurkmenAlem 52E, Turkmenistan’s first telecommunications satellite, was launched on April 28, 2015 from Cape Canaveral (Florida, US). It was brought to the space by Falcon 9 v1.1 carrier…
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has approved a draft agreement between the government of Belarus and the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China on the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of income and capital tax evasion as a basis for further talks. Corresponding decree No. 6 dated…
The World Bank (WB) has increased its forecast for Kazakhstan’s GDP growth for 2017. According to the WB January 2017 Global Economic Prospects report, real GDP growth in Kazakhstan will amount to 2.2% in 2017. The WB also forecasts Kazakhstan’s GDP growth to recover to 3.7% in 2018 and to 4% in 2019. The forecast…
Real GDP growth of Uzbekistan will amount to 7.4% in 2017, according to the January 2017 Global Economic Prospects report of the World Bank (WB) published on its website. The WB expects that Uzbekistan will keep economic growth at 7.4% also in 2018 and in 2019 given stabilization of commodity prices. In June last year…
GDP growth rate in Turkmenistan will amount to 6.5% in 2017, according to the January 2017 Global Economic Prospects report of the World Bank (WB) published on its website. Turkmenistan will also increase the economy’s growth by 6.8% in 2018 and by 7% in 2019, according to the WB forecasts. GDP growth rate in Turkmenistan…