Eastern Europe

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The exports of Belarusian industrial goods to Russia are expected to grow 10% in 2023, Belarusian Deputy Industry Minister Dmitry Kharitonchik said."Hopefully, it will be around 110% at the end of the year. These are challen...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The World Bank supports rapid recovery programs in Ukraine, the bank's Regional Country Director for Eastern Europe Arup Banerji said.Fast recovery must run simultaneously with continued support for essential services, and ...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - EQT Corporation, the largest independent producer of natural gas in the United States, has donated oil and gas production equipment to JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya, Ukraine's gas producer, Ukrainian media said, citing the company...

ASTANA. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The KazTransOil has begun the intake of Kazakh oil into the pipeline to export it to Germany, KazTransOil spokesperson Shyngys Ilyasov said on Thursday."The intake of Kazakh oil into the KazTransOil main oil pipeline system...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has discussed with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the fostering of food security and interaction in Ukraine's opening of food hubs in Africa.Ukrainian media reported, citing a ...

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The second power unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (BelNPP) will be put into operation in the second half of 2023, Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich said on Thursday."The second BelNPP power unit is 98% ...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has resumed transshipment of oil at the sea terminal outside Novorossiysk, the CPC said on Thursday, February 23."Normalization of weather conditions enabled the Caspian Pipeline Consor...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Former Gazprom executive Andrey Dmitriev has become the owner of a part of Volga Gas production assets in the Saratov Region and Bashkiria.He became the owner of 100% of shares in Prikaspiyskaya Gazovaya Kompaniya LLC (PGK) and...

YEREVAN. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The United Nations' International Court of Justice has ordered Azerbaijan to ensure unimpeded movement along the Lachin corridor linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.The court ruled that "the republic of Azerbaijan sh...

WASHINGTON. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Russia's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty with the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) is a mistake, U.S. President Joe Biden sai...

BAKU. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has called on Armenia to return to the negotiating table."Armenia should abandon its destructive position and return to the negotiating table. Despite Armenia's refusal to take...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian State Service for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadaster (StateGeoCadaster) will work on modernizing the automated system of the State Land Cadaster along with the World Bank and the European Union, with support from ...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Roscosmos plans to test the damaged Soyuz MS-22 during its return to Earth, and it will be brought down from orbit under a shortened program, Roscosmos Executive Director for Manned Space Programs Sergei Krikalev said."We p...

ASTANA. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The Kazakh Labor and Social Protection Ministry has approved a list of in-demand professions in the spheres of science, healthcare, industry and IT with which foreigners can receive residence permits in Kazakhstan under facilit...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Chevron-controlled Tengizchevroil has continued production at the Tengiz field, from which the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) halted the intake of oil into the system on Wednesday because of excess stock."Tengizchevroil ...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The Bank of New York Mellon has notified the holders of ADRs of Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) that the respective depository agreement will expire on May 23, 2023, the depository said in a statement.The BNY Mellon in mid-November ...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - As many as 137 towns and villages in the Kiev, Zhitomir, Volyn, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitsky, and Ternopol regions are facing power outages after distribution system operators' networks were damaged as a result of bad weather, U...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) have signed a landmark first co-financing agreement, under which MIGA will issue up to $200 million in trade fi...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Nornickel is working on the issue of splitting the par value of its shares, Mikhail Borovikov, head of the company's Investor Relations Department, said while answering questions from investors on the BCS Live channel.The c...

MINSK. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Poland will restrict the movement of trucks across its border with Belarus at the only checkpoint that accepts freight vehicles, the Belarusian State Border Committee said in a statement on Monday."The Polish border agency i...

CHELYABINSK. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized Metran Holding LLC in Chelyabinsk to acquire shares of Metran Industrial Group, the Russian manufacturer of technological process automation equipment, from companies belongi...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Black Iron Inc., a Canadian mining company that bought a license for the Shimanovsky iron ore deposit in 2010, said that it continues to promote the project, despite the difficulties with its implementation."The management ...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has approved a deal for Almira LLC to buy the business of AmRest business in Russia, which manages KFC restaurants, the service said.AmRest, which manages 214 KFC restaurants in Ru...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva arrived in Kiev on Monday for a brief visit, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources."She made a stopover in Kiev on her way to India for a me...

TOKYO. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Japan will hold an online G7 meeting on February 24, which will be joined by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and Tokyo will also provide $5.5 billion in aid for Ukraine, the Associated Press said referring to Japanese Pri...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine has exported 30.32 million tonnes of grains, including 17.42 million tonnes of corn, accounting for 57.4% of total supplies, 10.81 million tonnes of wheat (35.7%) and 1.98 million tonnes of barley (6.5%) since the start...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Russia has already exported about 800,000 tonnes of wheat to Libya in this agricultural year (from July 1, 2022 to February 20, 2023, the agricultural year will end on June 30), the Agricultural Ministry's Agroexport center...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Sber has entered the capital of a company that provides services and IT services in the area of transport logistics.Sberbank Investments has obtained 1% of Tracker Group LLC, according to the Unified State Registry of Legal Ent...

TBILISI. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Defense lawyers for former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have filed a motion with an appeals court to review a first-instance court's judgment to deny him a deferral of his prison term because of serious health is...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - DTEK Odessa Power Grid, an electricity distribution system operator, has reported an emergency outage of a high-voltage line supplying the Kievsky and Primorsky districts of Odessa."Specialists have already been performing ...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Transneft expects to transship at least 40 million tonnes of oil via the Kozmino port in 2023."Some 40 million tonnes went through Kozmino in 2022, and this year, we plan at least that amount," company president Nikolai...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia, UZ) will receive half of the $50 million in grant financing announced by the World Bank (WB) and will use the funds to buy and build fitting (container) platforms, Ukrainian media reported, c...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The Russian economy has shown growth [quarterly, adjusted for the seasonal factor] since the third quarter of 2022, and it is in fact entering a new growth cycle with a qualitatively different structure, President Vladimir Puti...

ALMATY. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Tengizchevroil (TCO) will continue to export oil through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline due to its reliability and economic efficiency, TCO General Director Kevin Lyon told reporters on Tuesday."In 2022, the CPC f...

BRUSSELS. Feb 21 (Interfax) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said he regrets Russia's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty with the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive A...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The European Union is launching the Digital Transformation for Ukraine (DT4UA) project and plans to allocate 17.4 million euros in aid for its implementation, Ukrainian media reported, citing the country's Digital Transform...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - Preliminary findings indicate that external impact was behind the depressurization of the thermal control system of the Progress MS-21 resupply ship, then docked to the International Space Station (ISS), the same cause that was...

MOSCOW. Feb 21 (Interfax) - The situation with the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in countries neighboring Russia continues to worsen, despite the declared execution of plans to eliminate outbreaks of infection, Russian plant and animal health watchd...

BRUSSELS. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The grain deal to export food products from Ukraine should be extended in order to avert a repeat of the global food crisis, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said."The Black Sea Grain Initiative is expiring in mid-Ma...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) in December 2022 sold 100% of the National Reserve Bank (NRB) to an unrelated party for 3.893 billion rubles and non-cash consideration in the form of a stake in a Russian company, according ...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Annual inflation in Russia could fall below the 4% target in the spring of 2023 due to the base effect, external restrictions having caused consumer price growth to spike in March-April 2022, the Central Bank said in monetary p...

WASHINGTON. Feb 20 (Interfax) - United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday to discuss Ukraine aid and bilateral relations."The two leaders discussed supporting Ukraine [...] emph...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia still estimated the long-term neutral rate of 1%-2% in real terms which, with an inflation target of near 4%, corresponds to a nominal neutral rate of 5%-6%, the regulator said in a monetary policy re...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Kovalska Industrial and Construction Group, Kiev, has attracted a loan from Invest International, the Netherlands, totaling 32 million euros in order to build two plants in the Lvov Region, Ukrainian media reporte...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Metinvest reduced crude steel output 69.7% in 2022 to 9.18 million tonnes, Ukrainian media quoted the holding's parent company Metinvest B.V. as saying in a press release.Pig iron or hot metal production fell 71.4% to 2.743...

YEREVAN. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Armenia welcomes the United States' efforts as important ones in establishing a lasting peace in the region and would like to see even more profound partnership between the two countries, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat M...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine plans to increase natural gas production to nearly 19 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2023, Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Alexei Chernyshov said."This year, we [UkrGasVydobuvannya] have an ambitious goal - to produce an add...

MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Tax instruments will be used in order to implement an additional levy on the profits of Russian large businesses for the financially successful years of 2021-2022, rather than through "voluntary contributions", which do...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has permitted VK Company LLC, the core Russian legal entity of VK, to acquire 100% of RNKO Money.Mail.Ru, and the president's corresponding instruction has been posted on the federal portal ...

MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Kaspersky Lab acquired 49% of Ximi Pro, a company in the field of container IT infrastructure security or containerization, a type of virtualization that allows third-party applications to be run in isolation from the operating...