The Eurasian Development Bank at the end of June raised its inflation estimate for Belarus this year from 6.6% to 7.7% due to pressure from domestic demand cause by high wage growth, elevated ...

DUSHANBE. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Tajikistan exported 90,300 tonnes of agricultural products worth $33.9 million in H1 2025, the Export Agency under the Tajik government said. Exports increased 17.1% in ...

MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Rosstat has published the spring survey data on sown areas, according to which this year's crop plantings decreased 1.1%, including a 5.1% decline for grain and leguminous ...

ALMATY. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's financial regulator has licensed KMF, the nation's largest microfinance organization to operate as a bank, the Financial Market Regulation and Development ...

Earlier, analysts surveyed by Interfax had projected Kazakhstan's economic growth for January-July 2025 in the range of 5.5% to 6.3%. The National Bank of Kazakhstan has raised its 2025 GDP growth ...

Pobeda currently offers international routes to Minsk in Belarus, Gyumri in Armenia, Istanbul, Antalya, Alanya and Dalaman in Turkey, Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE, Tashkent and Samarkand in ...

Vadim Makheev, co-founder of JSC Essen Production AG, the main brand of which is Makheev, has acquired a 45.5% stake in Tabysh LLC, the management company of the Tatarstan discount store chain ...

MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Russia's foreign trade surplus fell 18.4% year-on-year to $63.9 billion in the first half of 2025, compared to $78.3 billion a year previously, it follows from data ...

Gorshkov was VTB's deputy CEO in charge of retail banking from 2023 to 2025. He served on the management board of the state bank's retail subsidiary VTB24 from 2007 to 2012. He then became first ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his hope that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday will be constructive. "I think we'll have constructive conversations," ...

"We hope that the upcoming meeting at the top level will give impetus to the normalization of bilateral relations, allowing us to move forward with these issues as well [restoration of direct flights] ...

Russia led the way with 166,600 tourists visiting Uzbekistan in the first half of 2025, according to the statistics. Turkmenistan was in second place sending 123,000 travelers to Uzbekistan in the ...