News — The EDB Fund for Digital Initiatives

Nikolai Podguzov, Chairman of the Management Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), and Vyacheslav Petushenko, Chairman of the Board of Russian Highways (Avtodor), agreed to consider the possibility of the Bank financing the construction of the M12 Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan road as part of the Europe–Western China transport corridor. The protocol to the Memorandum of Understanding was signed on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is ready to arrange financing for the Europe–Western China international transport corridor. Nikolai Podguzov, Chairman of the EDB Management Board, stated this on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum after signing a protocol to the Memorandum of Understanding with Russian Highways (Avtodor)

The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD, Fund) managed by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) took part in the meetings of the Energy Working Groups of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme. These meetings are taking place in the run-up to and to prepare for the CAREC Energy Sector Coordinating Committee Meeting, where the EFSD is also expected to take part. The working groups aim to implement the CAREC Energy Strategy 2030 endorsed at the November 2019 CAREC Ministerial Conference

Gemotest, a major laboratory network, has joined the COVID-19 Free Travel app developed by the Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Fund for Digital Initiatives. The results of PCR tests done in Gemotest labs will now be available in the app and can be used by citizens of the relevant countries when crossing borders at the airports of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia

On 28 May 2021, Gulmira Abdralieva, Minister of Transport, Architecture, Construction and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic, met with representatives of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD) managed by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)

On 20 May, Tigran Sargsyan, Vice Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Management Board who supervises the Fund for Digital Initiatives, delivered an open lecture on digital sovereignty as part of the Moscow Agency of Innovations’ Moscow IT Human Core joint project with the TUMO Moscow School

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) announces its seventh Eurasian Integration and Development in the 21st Century competition for the media and invites submissions. The first competition took place in 2015 and collected over 100 entries from the Bank’s member countries

EDB analysts have published another issue of the Macro Review. This is an intermediate issue between the projections published in March and June that monitors current macroeconomic developments in the EDB member states – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and Tajikistan

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), the AIFC Green Finance Centre, and the Kyzylorda Oblast Akimat signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation to implement green and social projects in Kyzylorda Oblast