The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR), a part of the Russian Export Center Group, provided over $8 billion in support to exporters in 2016, including $600 million to exporters to Belarus, head of EXIAR Office in Belarus Viktor Doronkevich said in a meeting with the delegates of Tomsk region and Russia’s…
Privatization of a 19.5% stake in Russian oil major Rosneft is very likely to happen in 2016, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin reported. “This is a liquid asset, and demand on the market is high, I am sure that we will do it”, he said. “Speaking of the possible purchase of Rosneft’s shares and of Rosneft’s…
Investors who put their funds in Azerbaijan in accordance with the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model have been exempt from the state duties. The corresponding amendments to the law “On state duty” were approved by Azerbaijani MPs at the plenary session of the country’s parliament October 14. In accordance with the BOT model provided by the law…
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has permitted mobile operator MegaFon to buy 100% in Moscow-based firm Kombell, which deals with connection, telecom equipment and telephony, the authority said in a statement. “We study closely all the proposals we receive on mergers and acquisitions. Prior to making a decision, we scrutinize the subject of the deal, and…
OPEC has increased its forecast for Russia’s oil output in 2016 by 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 11.04 million barrels a day, up by 190,000 barrels YoY. The forecast for the country’s daily oil production in 2017 also amounts to 11.04 million barrels. But the U.S. daily oil output is expected to fall by…
The further inflow rate of German investments in Ukraine’s economy will directly depend on the pace of economic reforms in Ukraine. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Ernst Reichel has stated this during the opening ceremony of the Ukrainian-German Business Forum. “We cannot force our companies to enter Ukraine…
During the “ICT Global Leadership Forum” in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, Ukrainian Education and Science Minister Liliya Hrynevych made a presentation called “ICT and education in Ukraine” and described the development of information and communication technologies and how they would be applied to reforms in the secondary education in Ukraine. “The ICT field…