ASTANA. July 17 (Interfax) - Food production in Kazakhstan increased 10% year-on-year in H1 2025 to 1.8 trillion tenge or $3.4 billion at the current rate, the government press service said. Food and ...

In the first half of 2025, ready-to-eat meat exports increased 15% in value terms, pasta by 23%, ice cream 40% and fish fillet 15%. Another significant category to have undergone rapid growth is ...

BAKU. July 17 (Interfax) - The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan's (SOCAR) Azerigas Production Union and the UAE's Esyasoft Holding have signed an agreement to create a smart gas network in Azerbaijan.

ALMATY. July 17 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Plants LLP (KNPP), which will handle the construction and management of domestic nuclear power plants, will be transferred to state ownership, the ...

BAKU. July 17 (Interfax) - China's JA Solar will supply 1 gigawatt of high-efficiency DeepBlue 4.0 Pro PV modules for the Nefthala and Bilasuvar solar power projects in Azerbaijan being developed by ...

MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - Japan has reflected oil imports from Russia in its statistics for the first time in 2.5 years. A small cargo of 70,000 tonnes was delivered to the country in June, the ...

MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - The Verkhovna Rada has approved the new composition of the Ukrainian government at a request of newly appointed Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, Ukrainian media reported ...

MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - Ukraine's merchandise trade deficit widened 49.1% to $14.594 billion in January-May 2025, from $9.787 billion in the same period of last year, Ukrainian media quoted the ...

BAKU. July 17 (Interfax) - Hungary's MOL Group plans a 3D seismic survey of the Shamakhi-Gobustan onshore oil and gas block in Azerbaijan, the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic's (SOCAR) ...

MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - State support for the Russian automobile industry should provide advantages to domestic manufacturers in the first turn, while the government will continue to encourage ...

Imports of electronics, as well as some investment goods, have decreased owing to the cooling of domestic demand, and enterprises in Tatarstan reported a decrease in purchases of foreign agricultural ...

MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - Russia supplied 2.897 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to Japan in H1 2025, down 3% year-on-year, the Japanese Finance Ministry said. This included 251,000 tonnes ...