Ukraine’s State Property Fund (SPF) seeks to sell private joint-stock company President Hotel, 51% of shares in Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works and 50% in public joint-stock company Azovmash. This is outlined in the fund resolution No. 1763 dated September 23. In addition, the fund intends to sell almost 100% of shares in Ukrainian Bank…
The current zero rates of export duties on Russian wheat will not reduce federal budget income, the Deputy Minister of Finance Ilya Trunin declared. According to him, the Ministry does not expect for any budget losses in connection with such a decision. The government of the Russian Federation zeroed down the export duties for wheat…
Russian fertilizer producer EuroChem has agreed with its shareholders on a $1 billion perpetual loan with a possible expansion to $1.5 billion to balance its covenant debt, a representative of the company reported. “This is a contribution into the capital, through providing a ‘perpetual loan’. The sum is $1 billion and can be raised to…
Iran has not received any offers to be excepted from an oil production freeze deal from OPEC, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh reported. On Tuesday, a high-ranking source in the Algerian delegation to the International Energy Forum said that Saudi Arabia was ready to cut its oil production to January levels if Iran froze its…
The restoration pace of the Ukrainian economy is predictable and insufficient, IMF Resident Representative Jerome Vacher has said. The economy has achieved macroeconomic stabilization, the IMF sees a gradual improvement of the economy – an increase of 1.5%, as the IMF predicts for 2016. But it’s a moderate recovery and the IMF would like to…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has received an application from the Belarusian government with a request to provide pre-privatization services for five prominent enterprises, Francis Delaey, the EBRD’s Head of Office in Belarus, reported. The EBRD has received an inquiry from the Belarusian government with a request to assist in pre-privatizing five…
The European Union (EU) has announced the doubling of the bilateral assistance package in support to private sector development and strengthening institutions in Belarus from 14.5 million euro in 2015 to 29 million euro in 2016. The EU Representative Office in Belarus posted a message to this effect on its official web site. The funding…