The Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda paper says that enterprises dispatched products and provided services worth a total of 9.7 billion rubles in the first 9 months of 2014, exceeding the volume of the first 9 months of 2013 by 123.2%. The index of growth in the manufacturing of metallurgy products was 150%, machinery and equipment 142.1%.
Kavkazkabel increased production of copper wire, Sevkavrentgen-D increased production of steel, Terek-Almaz of drilling equipment, Stankostroitelniy Zavod of cement mixers, and the Prokhladnensky factory increased production of field cultivators.
Retail sales grew, sales on markets dropped. The turnover on the retail market amounted to 68 billion rubles, exceeding the volume of the previous year by 4%. Non-market trading accumulated 55 billion rubles, forming 80.9% of retail turnover.
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The European Union and Georgia have signed an agreement to refinance the second stage of the program for support of regional development, Georgia Online reports. The stage focuses on the formation of infrastructure, support for small and medium-scale business, tourism, development of rural areas and professional education.
The program has a budget of 30 million euros. It is based on the results achieved at the first stage of the regional development program realized in 2011-2013. The basis for development of the 2015-2017 regional development plan was passed that year.
Johannes Hahn, a member of the European Commission for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said that the second stage will focus on helping the government plan financing, development of infrastructure, small and medium-scale business, tourism, rural areas and professional education. In his words, the program will enrich human resources and initiate statistical studies of regional development, coordinate regional strategies, and state or private investments in regions. Hahn emphasized that the rapprochement policy had played a key role in the transformation of countries granted EU membership in 2004. Within the framework of the Eastern Partnership, we promote cooperation and dialogue in developing the policy for regional development, according to the European official.
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Yerevan has hosted the first Armenian-Lithuanian business forum, Delovoy Express reports. Representatives of about 15 of the largest food companies of Lithuania presented enterprises for meat processing, manufacture of pasta and dairy products, low-alcohol drinks, herbal products, tea and others. It was the first visit by Lithuanian businessmen to Armenia. The guests arrived to study the market of Armenia, its potential, see its enterprises and hold bilateral negotiations with potential partners.
Regimantas Jablonskas, deputy director of the Department for Foreign Economic Relations of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, believes that cooperation could boost the low trade turnover between the two countries. He said that the trade turnover was a little over 9 million euros in 2013. Exports of Lithuanian products to Armenia increased by about 30% in the first 8 months of 2014. Lithuania sells equipment, parts and technologies for the engineering industry, petroleum, telephones and IT systems. Exports from Armenia to Lithuania amounted to only about 1 million euros. The main exports are cognac and wine (about 55% of total exports), juice, mineral water and other non-alcoholic products. The deputy minister clarified that Armenian fruits and vegetables did not meet EU standards and needed certificates. He added that the countries could cooperate in information technologies.
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The Yuzhnaya Ossetiya paper says that restoration of housing after the war of August 2008 became a priority of the complex recovery plan of the republic, using Russia’s financial aid. The reconstruction has been going according to an investment program for socio-economic development since 2011. Low financing and other problems were the cause of its slow implementation.
Sergey Gagloyev, South Ossetian minister for construction, architecture, housing and utilities services, said that a new program for recovery and housing construction will be adopted in 2015-2017. 82 houses worth 60.8 million rubles will be reconstructed, work on 44 of them has been accomplished. 4 municipal apartments are under reconstruction. The process will be concluded at the end of the year. Construction of 49 private houses in border districts of the republic was included in the investment program in 2014. According to Gagloyev, their financing is regular, everything should be completed in time. The reconstruction after the war of 2008 will be accomplished in three years.
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The Dagestanskaya Pravda paper reports that an exposition of items found during cleaning of the Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiye Canal opened at the Dagestani Center of Modern Art in Makhachkala for a week. Organizers say that the goal of the exhibition was to draw public attention to the canal. “We decided to be creative and present items retrieved from the canal as art objects, so that it would not look that terrifying,” explained Salim Nuruchiyev, the director of the exhibition hall. The exhibition consists of parallelepiped made from garbage pressed by activists of the local “I am a president’s helper” movement. Visitors may see rusty bicycles, prams, TVs, vehicle parts, tyres and other things.
People were especially interested in two water containers: one of them contained swamp-like water collected from the canal during its cleaning, the second container holds pure water. The expositions show how dirty the water was before being purified. The exhibition demonstrated photos of the cleaning process.
Magomed Magomedov, the leader of the activist group, expressed hope that the exhibition would make people treat the canal built by their grandparents with more care. He noted that not all functionaries had visited the exhibition.
The canal was cleaned in October 2014. About 23,000 cubic meters of garbage and waste were collected. Ramazan Abdulatipov noted that there had not been such an intensive cleaning of the canal since the completion of its construction in 1923.
Caucasus domestic and foreign political events in local pressThe Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda paper says that enterprises dispatched products and provided services worth a total of 9.7 billion rubles in the first 9 months of 2014, exceeding the volume of the first 9 months of 2013 by 123.2%. The index of growth in the manufacturing of metallurgy products was 150%, machinery and equipment 142.1%.Kavkazkabel increased production of copper wire, Sevkavrentgen-D increased production of steel, Terek-Almaz of drilling equipment, Stankostroitelniy Zavod of cement mixers, and the Prokhladnensky factory increased production of field cultivators.Retail sales grew, sales on markets dropped. The turnover on the retail market amounted to 68 billion rubles, exceeding the volume of the previous year by 4%. Non-market trading accumulated 55 billion rubles, forming 80.9% of retail turnover.* * *The European Union and Georgia have signed an agreement to refinance the second stage of the program for support of regional development, Georgia Online reports. The stage focuses on the formation of infrastructure, support for small and medium-scale business, tourism, development of rural areas and professional education.The program has a budget of 30 million euros. It is based on the results achieved at the first stage of the regional development program realized in 2011-2013. The basis for development of the 2015-2017 regional development plan was passed that year.Johannes Hahn, a member of the European Commission for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said that the second stage will focus on helping the government plan financing, development of infrastructure, small and medium-scale business, tourism, rural areas and professional education. In his words, the program will enrich human resources and initiate statistical studies of regional development, coordinate regional strategies, and state or private investments in regions. Hahn emphasized that the rapprochement policy had played a key role in the transformation of countries granted EU membership in 2004. Within the framework of the Eastern Partnership, we promote cooperation and dialogue in developing the policy for regional development, according to the European official.* * *Yerevan has hosted the first Armenian-Lithuanian business forum, Delovoy Express reports. Representatives of about 15 of the largest food companies of Lithuania presented enterprises for meat processing, manufacture of pasta and dairy products, low-alcohol drinks, herbal products, tea and others. It was the first visit by Lithuanian businessmen to Armenia. The guests arrived to study the market of Armenia, its potential, see its enterprises and hold bilateral negotiations with potential partners.Regimantas Jablonskas, deputy director of the Department for Foreign Economic Relations of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, believes that cooperation could boost the low trade turnover between the two countries. He said that the trade turnover was a little over 9 million euros in 2013. Exports of Lithuanian products to Armenia increased by about 30% in the first 8 months of 2014. Lithuania sells equipment, parts and technologies for the engineering industry, petroleum, telephones and IT systems. Exports from Armenia to Lithuania amounted to only about 1 million euros. The main exports are cognac and wine (about 55% of total exports), juice, mineral water and other non-alcoholic products. The deputy minister clarified that Armenian fruits and vegetables did not meet EU standards and needed certificates. He added that the countries could cooperate in information technologies.* * *The Yuzhnaya Ossetiya paper says that restoration of housing after the war of August 2008 became a priority of the complex recovery plan of the republic, using Russia’s financial aid. The reconstruction has been going according to an investment program for socio-economic development since 2011. Low financing and other problems were the cause of its slow implementation.Sergey Gagloyev, South Ossetian minister for construction, architecture, housing and utilities services, said that a new program for recovery and housing construction will be adopted in 2015-2017. 82 houses worth 60.8 million rubles will be reconstructed, work on 44 of them has been accomplished. 4 municipal apartments are under reconstruction. The process will be concluded at the end of the year. Construction of 49 private houses in border districts of the republic was included in the investment program in 2014. According to Gagloyev, their financing is regular, everything should be completed in time. The reconstruction after the war of 2008 will be accomplished in three years.* * *The Dagestanskaya Pravda paper reports that an exposition of items found during cleaning of the Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiye Canal opened at the Dagestani Center of Modern Art in Makhachkala for a week. Organizers say that the goal of the exhibition was to draw public attention to the canal. “We decided to be creative and present items retrieved from the canal as art objects, so that it would not look that terrifying,” explained Salim Nuruchiyev, the director of the exhibition hall. The exhibition consists of parallelepiped made from garbage pressed by activists of the local “I am a president’s helper” movement. Visitors may see rusty bicycles, prams, TVs, vehicle parts, tyres and other things.People were especially interested in two water containers: one of them contained swamp-like water collected from the canal during its cleaning, the second container holds pure water. The expositions show how dirty the water was before being purified. The exhibition demonstrated photos of the cleaning process.Magomed Magomedov, the leader of the activist group, expressed hope that the exhibition would make people treat the canal built by their grandparents with more care. He noted that not all functionaries had visited the exhibition.The canal was cleaned in October 2014. About 23,000 cubic meters of garbage and waste were collected. Ramazan Abdulatipov noted that there had not been such an intensive cleaning of the canal since the completion of its construction in
