Belarus and Ecuador discussed their cooperation during the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. Belarus-Ecuador cooperation was in the spotlight at the meeting of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Ecuador Igor Poluyan and Acting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Migration…
Belarus’ Ambassador to Venezuela Oleg Pafenov met with the heads of Venezuelan companies to discuss prospects for further cooperation. “The Ambassador held working meetings with heads of three assembly plants built by Belarusian specialists. The parties discussed the current issues related to the operation of companies and talked over the prospects for further mutually beneficial…
In January-July the amount of capital investments in Ukraine has grown almost by 10%, Ukrainian First Vice Prime Minister, Economic Development and Trade Minister Stepan Kubiv has said. “In the first six months of 2016, capital investments grew by 10%, actually by 9.6%. The net increase in foreign direct investments was recorded at $2.3 billion…
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings affirmed its ‘BBB-/A-3’ long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Kazakhstan. The S&P also affirmed the Kazakhstan national scale ratings at ‘kzAA’, the outlook on the long-term ratings is negative, the credit-rating agency said in a message on September 12. The ratings on Kazakhstan remain…
Several Internet projects of the Runet, the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, have beaten the country’s biggest TV channels by audience coverage, according to TNS study for June. Google led by monthly audience coverage with 88% and was followed by its local rival Yandex with 87.2% and social network VKontakte with 86%. YouTube had 82.7%…
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service is not inclined to extend the period given to Google to fix its breaches on the local market of preinstalled application stores; still no final decision has been made, the authority’s Director Igor Artemyev said. “Now the official who made the corresponding decision should take steps. We will speak to that…
There are conditions for the central bank to cut its key rate at the upcoming meeting on Friday, inflation is slowing, national top lender Sberbank CEO German Gref said. “On the whole, there are objective reasons for a key rate cut”, he said. “There is a problem that in the third and fourth quarters seasonal…