Almaty, 18 October 2013. The 16th session of the Russia-Vietnam Intergovernmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Research and Technological Cooperation took place in Hanoi on Wednesday. The participants in the meeting discussed a range of measures and solutions as to how promote cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in certain areas. The sides talked, among other things, about Russia’s role in attracting investment to Vietnam and, in particular, about the provision of loans for the projects to construct nuclear power facilities in this country.
Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Russian side in the Commission and First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, stated in his speech that Russia welcomed negotiations between Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and Vietnam on Vietnam’s joining the Bank as a member state
Almaty, 18 October 2013. The leaders of the Customs Union countries have set clear boundaries for regional integration, which is purely economic. Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the Management Board at Eurasian Development Bank, pointed this out at the Eurasian Forum in Verona on Friday
Substantial majorities in most of the potential Customs Union member states are in favour of joining the bloc, according to a study by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). This even includes Georgia, which despite a troubled relationship with Russia has seen the number supporting entry double in the last year
Almaty, 17 October 2013. Last week the ceremony of laying a capsule to designate the launching of the project to construct a 45 MW wind power plant took place in the town of Yereimentau, Akmola Region, in Kazakhstan.
In the framework of this project, in April 2013 Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) provided a ten-year loan facility of KZT 14.2 billion (approximately US $94 million) to the First Wind Power Station LLP (a member of the Samruk Energy Group of Companies)
Almaty, 15 October 2013. Igor Finogenov, Chairman of the Management Board at Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), and Sergey Shatalov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, took part in the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington last week.
In the U.S. the EDB delegation had talks with top officials of a number of international institutions, including:
Moscow, 11 October 2013. On 10 October 2013 Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) closed the order book for its series 08 bonds for a total of RUB 5 billion, with a put option exercisable two years after placement. The issue will mature seven years after placement
Almaty, 9 October 2013. Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) published its annual Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2013.
This English-language publication includes the most interesting articles on Eurasian integration. The Bank expects that the yearbook will help distribute the results of researches, which were published in Russian among, the global research and economic community. The main contents of the yearbook are the English versions of selected articles published in the Eurasian Economic Integration magazine and other EDB publications. These are supplemented with a chronicle of regional integration over the past year
EDB has undertaken its third annual Environmental Patrol initiative.
Almaty, 7 October 2013. On Saturday, 5 October, the Bank’s employees, their families, representatives of diplomatic missions in Almaty and local authorities took part in Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) regular environmental initiative. This time the employees of the Bank’s headquarters and volunteers went to the Medeu state regional nature park to plant Schrenk’s spruces
Almaty, 4 October 2013. Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) will hold the 8th International Conference titled Deepening and Expanding Eurasian Integration in Moscow on
EDB’s annual conferences bring together heads of the region’s authorities and integration associations and prominent experts. The participants in this forum include: