The GDP growth in the second quarter of this year was 1.3%, whereas it amounted to 0.1% in the first quarter. The First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv said this at the Cabinet’s meeting. “We saw the growth of GDP by 0.1% in the first quarter of 2016…
The Russian government may introduce a new taxation regime for the oil sector, or a tax on added income, this year, but it will be applied only from 2018, according to the protocol of a recent meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. The new tax will substitute existing tax incentives on some fields…
Ukraine’s economy demonstrates a growing dynamics, thereby affording to fill the state budget and to invest in improving the quality of life of the Ukrainian people and citizens. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced this while opening a government meeting on Wednesday, the press service of the government’s portal reported. “In fact, today we…
The Islamic Corporation for Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is discussing an opportunity of allocating $30 million to two Azerbaijani banks and a company. The agreements might be signed soon. The funds will be used to finance the projects in cotton-growing, food and textile industries. According to the ICD financing rules, the minimum amount…
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Belgium with concurrent accreditation to Luxemburg, Belarus’ Permanent Representative in the European Union Alexander Mikhnevich expressed hope for further development of investment cooperation between Belarus and the European companies. “Many EU companies already have presence in Belarus. The most interesting sectors include machine-building, electronics, chemical products, pharmaceuticals, timber,…
Fifty representatives of Finnish companies from various industries took part in the Belarusian-Finnish economic forum on September 13, in Gomel, Director General of the Gomel department of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marina Filonova reported. She mentioned high activity of Finnish businessmen who had sent many applications for participation. “It means that they…
The international rating agency Fitch expects that corporate lending in Russia will grow by 5% in 2016 and retail loans will increase within 3%, the agency’s analyst Anton Lopatin said. “In the first half of the year corporate lending adjusted for currency revaluation increased by 2%. Reasons of this growth – rates have decreased, correspondingly,…