The Council of Europe plans to provide Ukraine with 45 million euros to support reforms, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin posted on Twitter. “The Day of Ukrainian reforms in the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe’s action plan for Ukraine envisages EUR 45 million to support Ukrainian reforms – the largest support package…
The Turkish business shows interest in expanding its presence in the Belarusian market, Chairman of the Turkish-Belarusian Business Cooperation Council Sefa Gomdeniz said at the investment forum in Minsk on September 29. Turkish companies are ready to offer Belarus new big investment projects. Possibilities of cooperation expansion are being discussed at the governmental level, the…
The National Agency of Investment and Privatization of Belarus (NAIP) intends to attract strategic investors to the enterprises to be privatized within the framework of the pilot project the agency is implementing with assistance of the World Bank, NAIP Director Natalya Nikandrova announced. The agency has been taking care of pre-privatization of eight Belarusian enterprises…
Small and medium private enterprises are expected to secure three fourths of the national economy’s growth by late 2020. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov made the statement after his working trip to Minsk region on September 30. “We now pay close attention to small and medium private enterprises. We expect these enterprises to secure…
Russia’s oil production may fall after 2018 if the government keeps the tax burden on the industry, Vagit Alekperov, CEO of oil major Lukoil, said. “I would not like to be some kind of a prophet, but stabilization will be there already in 2017. While in 2018-2019 production will fall”, he said, when asked about…
Private oil companies will join the initiative to limit oil production in the country if Russia makes such a decision, oil major Lukoil CEO Vagit Alekperov said. “We wait for the end of November when precise quotas (of OPEC), a precise validity period of these agreements is defined. We hope this will push oil prices…
Kazakhstan is ready to share its practices in the development of public-private partnership with Belarus, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Kazakhstan Public-Private Partnership Center Galymbek Mamrayev said. Kazakh experts worked on a technical assistance project in Belarus in April. They analyzed the prospects for the development of PPP in Belarus. “Today we see…