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UKRAINE-PROSECUTORS-TYMOSHENKO KYIV. May 18 (Interfax) – Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka thanked German Ambassador to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth at a meeting on Friday for the assistance provided by German doctors in the treatment of for…
KAZAKHSTAN-CASPIAN-IRAN-OPINION ASTANA. May 18 (Interfax) – A U.S. analyst predicted on Friday that Iran would “sooner or later” have to accept the proposal of the other four Caspian states that the inland sea be divided into national sectors. “Iran …
RUSSIA-ROSTECH-INCORPORATION MOSCOW. May 18. (Interfax) – The state Russian Technologies (Rostekhnologii) corporation will finish corporatizing its assets by late 2012 or early 2013, its general director, Sergei Chemezov, said at a meeting chaired by R…
RUSSIA-STOCK-MARKET-INDEXES IndexValueNet% Change RTS Index Dollar1289.46-23.97-1.82 Ruble8971.91-176.85-1.93 MICEX Index Ruble1271.48-16.31-1.27 MICEX-10 Index Ruble3001.68-37.31-1.23 RTS2 Index Dollar1459.78-17.69-1.20 MICEX Chemicals Inde…
RUSSIA-PRIMORSKY-WAREHOUSE-SITUATION MOSCOW. May 18 (Interfax-AVN) – The blasts caused by a fire at an ammunition depot in the Primorsky Territory have stopped, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov told Interfax-AVN. “According t…
RUSSIA-MINISTRY-EUROPE-NATIONALISM MOSCOW. May 18 (Interfax) – Moscow deplored “mounting” right-wing nationalism in Europe and said it was reminiscent of the way the Nazis came to power in Germany. “Unfortunately, the serous economic and social probl…
KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-OIL-SUPPLIES ASTANA. May 18 (Interfax) – Kazakhstan and Russia may sign intergovernmental agreements on supplies of Russian oil, particularly to the Pavlodar Oil Refinery, at the end of May, Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev …
GEORGIA-INDIA-HPP-CONSTRUCTION TBILISI. May 18 (Interfax) – Indian company Trans Electrica Limited will start building the Hudoni Hydro Power Plant in Georgia in August 2012 at Inguri River and with capacity of 650 megawatts, the company told Interfax….
9.30 a.m. Liturgy Participant: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia Venue: Butovo range, venue of mass executions during Stalin purges Phone: 8499…
UKRAINE-CENTRAL-BANK-FOREX-RATE-CHANGES Rate18/05/1221/05/12Change, % Official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the US dollar (UAH/$)7.99107.9915+0.006 Official exchange rate of the hryvnia to EURO (UAH/EUR1)10.13418610.165987+0.314 Official exchang…
UKRAINE-EBRD-GDP-GROWTH Kyiv, May 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The growth of Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013 will speed up to 4% from 2.5% in 2012, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reported in its updated Regional E…
KAZAKHSTAN-BANK-MANAGEMENT-CHANGESAlmaty. May 18. Interfax-Kazakhstan – Kazkommertsbank has prematurely terminated the authority of Gail Buyske, a member of the board of directors and independent director, the banks says in a Friday press release.
KAZAKHSTAN-BANK-DIVIDENDSAlmaty. May 19. Interfax-Kazakhstan – On Friday the annual general meeting of Kazkommertsbank shareholders made a decision not to pay dividends from the net profit of 2011, the bank says in a press release.
KAZAKHSTAN-IRAN-CASPIAN-STATUS ASTANA. May 18 (Interfax) – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Mohammadizadeh discussed aspects of bilateral relations and exchanged opinions on a regional and international ag…
KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-OIL-SUPPLIES ASTANA. May 18. (Interfax) – Russia reduced oil deliveries to the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant (PPP, part of KazMunayGas) in May, Director of the Department for Oil Industry Development at the Kazakh Oil and Gas Ministry …
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