Russian and CIS sugar news, Oct 09, 2015

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VEB Bank Supervisory Board, at the meeting held on Wednesday, has decided to sell most of the outstanding debts of agricultural holdings "Razguliay" group to "Rusagro" owned by Vladimir Moshkovich. Total outstanding debt of "Razguliay" group to VEB, the largest creditor, is more than 34 billion rubles today.
Sugar prices have added average 3 Soms (reaching KGS 48-55/kg) in the northern regions of Kyrgyzstan following 2 months after the admission of the Kyrgyz Republic to the EAEC.
According to figures by the Ministry of Agriculture dated of October 8, 2015, Belarus has harvested sugar beet from 49.5% of the total sugar beet acreage. Bulk harvest makes 1 424 thousand tons of sugar beet, sucrose content in sugar beet at acceptance time makes 17.06%. According to the Association "Belsahar" (Sugar Organization of Belarus) the country has processed 1,009,600 tons of sugar beet from which has produced 139,400 tons of white sugar.
The average consumer price for sugar has decreased by 0.6% in September 2015, the National Statistical Service reported. In the capital city of Yerevan the decline was 0.4%.
According to the rail cargo monitoring data by Sugar.Ru, sugar transit across Russia to Tajikistan has amounted to 9900 tons in January-September. The largest exporters of sugar to Tajikistan are Belarus (4.7 thousand tons) and Ukraine (2.2 thousand tons).  

Month Departure point	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	TOTAL
Belarus		511	511	639	320	1087	1023	639	4731
Slutsky sugar plant		511	511	639	320	1087	1023	639	4731
Ukraine			1561	643					2204
Radekhiv sugar plant			1086	643					1729
Chortkiv sugar plant			475						475
Slovakia	50		500			814	628		1993
Slovakia  border point	50		500			814	628		1993
Hungary								867	867
Hungary border point								867	867
Austria							63		63
Austria border point							63		63
TOTAL	50	511	2572	1282	320	1901	1715	1507	9858