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...
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...
Ukraine will end 2015 with its worst ever rate of economic growth. Vladimir Putin might be feeling triumphant. No wonder he tirelessly “poured gasoline” on Ukraine, annexed Crimea, and started slaughtering people on...
Because of Western sanctions, the Russian economy will lose annually more than $20bn. The former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said this in an ICTV broadcast, writes the UNN. “Losses from the sanctions is approximately 1% of...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
