Lenders reported a rise in total net profit by 16.9 percent year-on-year to 173.9 million manats ($63.4 million) in the first quarter of this year.

Georgia’s commercial banking sector reported a rise in net profit in amount of 413,486 million lari ($137.4 million) in the first quarter of this year compared with 411,807 million lari in the same period of 2021.

Russia is one of Kyrgyzstan's main trade partners and sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow would impact not only Russia, but the economies of its partners.

The country has been actively recruiting foreign companies to build wind, solar and hydropower plants on the basis of public-private partnerships and has signed agreements to implement several large power projects.

The rate on access operations to provide liquidity was raised to 15 percent from 14.5 percent and the rate on access operations to withdraw liquidity - to 13 percent from 12.5 percent.