On October 3, Ukraine and Korea held a sitting of the joint governmental commission for trade and economic cooperation. First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Yulia Kovaliv posted this on her Facebook page. “I’ve opened the Ukrainian-Korean business forum. Main messages for the Korean business: the Ukrainian government is open for investors and business,…
On September 30, the minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Kutovyi signed the Annex #1 to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and market participants – grain exporters for 2016/2017 MY. The document settles voluntary coordination of the possible volumes of grain exports from Ukraine in 2016/2017 MY,…
Russia’s Finance Ministry has suggested the government cut spending on a state agriculture program by 9.4% to 214.791 billion rubles in 2016, according to the ministry’s draft amendments to the 2016 budget published on the government’s web site for disclosure of legal information. The ministry also offered a 9.8% cut of financing of the state…
Russia’s Transport Ministry will prepare proposals to sale national flag carrier Aeroflot’s 75% minus one share stake in Rossiya Airlines by October 10, minister Maxim Sokolov announced. “I think that the deadline for that is set for October 10, in accordance with the government ruling”, Sokolov said. (Prime/Business World Magazine)
The Russian government will resume preparations for a sale of its stake in oil company Bashneft and has launched the sale of 19.5% in oil major Rosneft, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said. “After an additional study of the privatization issue of Bashneft and Rosneft, the government decided to restart preparations for the sale of…
Cancellation of the export duties on Russian wheat has to be unlimited, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich declared. According to him, the government canceled the customs duties for 2 years, but the officials do not plan to restore the duties at all. They requested grain exporters to set any possible…
Russian Internet giant Mail.Ru Group acquired 100% of mobile game developer Pixonic for $30 million, the group said. “We’re sure that we’ve been joined by one of the strongest teams of mobile game developers in the world. We’re confident that the merger will enforce the division of the international mobile development and release, and we’ll…