A thorny way to privatization Privatization is associated with an exceptionally abusive period for Ukrainians; many carry painful memories of the 1990s, the early post-Independence years. Poor regulation of privatization at the time...
During his school years, inventor Valentyn Frechka was a member of Ukraine’s Minor Academy of Sciences — a state institution for supporting gifted and talented students. Then, as a rural school student in the village of...
Ukraine is currently playing three chess games on three different chess boards: one related to economy, the second to the war, and the third to justice. These are the key topics on Ukraine’s agenda. The games are being played by...
What lies behind world ratings improvement for Ukraine? On 9 August, the Japanese Rating and Investment Information raised Ukrainian creditworthiness on two positions from CCC+ to B, while on 6 September the New York-based Fitch Ratings...
This recovery process is accompanied by a general stabilisation trend. The exchange rate has been stable for a considerable amount of time and is now backed by significantly larger foreign exchange reserves. Inflation is still high at...
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those they list as enemies, Andrey Illarionov says; but the former are falling ever further behind the latter both in terms of GDP per...
Although complaints about production termination are heard more than the reports about the launch of new frontiers, Ukrainian industry doesn’t cave in. Foreign investment and loans have become the basis for new businesses. And they...
According to UkrAvtoProm association, sales of new cars in Ukraine for 2016 increased by 40.9% to 65,562 units, as compared to 2015 when only 46,546 vehicles were sold. The brands topping the last year’s list by number of sales...
Ukraine’s 2017 budget was adopted on 21 December 2016 by parliament. Despite a late and typically emotional adoption of the budget, the whole process came to a good end: the government managed to deliver a budget, which meets the...
According to Deputy Finance Minister Oksana Markarov, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine in 2016 increased by 1.8%. According to her, expected major drivers of economic growth in 2017 are “the inflow of investments and an...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
