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Court drops lawsuit over UMC shares

  Kyiv’s Economic Court on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of MTS and rejected the Prosecutor General’s Office request to have a 51 percent share in Ukrainian …
Roman Olearchyk

Tax law unclear about real estate transactions

Under a new tax code adopted in January, real estate sales by residents and non-residents will be taxed starting in 2005. The tax code says that …
Stephan Ladanaj

Ukraine tops $7 billion in FDI

  The half-year total represents an 8.5 percent increase in FDI into Ukraine since the end of last year, when total FDI stood at about $6.7 …
Stephan Ladanaj

Ukraine tops $7 billion in FDI

992, Interfax reported Aug. 16. The half-year total represents an 8.5 percent increase in FDI into Ukraine since the end of last year, when total FDI …
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Good harvest expected to boost exports

A marketing year in the grain trade begins in July and ends the following June. According to official government forecasts, Ukrainian farmers are …
Stephan Ladanaj

Good harvest expected to boost exports

ear. A marketing year in the grain trade begins in July and ends the following June. According to official government forecasts, Ukrainian farmers are …
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Gorging on the Olympics, and other summer pleasures

orge yourself. The Olympics will be on all the time over the weekend, but we’ve picked out some competitions of note. On Aug. 20, swimming is at 8 …
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Not your Soviet grandmother’s varenychna

Back in Soviet times, a restaurant called Varenychna # 1 would have been a low-key canteen, specializing in varenyki. The only varenychna now open in …
Alexandra Matoshko

Sumy students beaten?

sities were – allegedly – attacked by the militia on Aug. 6 and beaten. One was hospitalized with internal injuries. Where should we begin with this …
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Yanukovych’s interesting statement

t couldn’t get slower, along came Prime Minister (and presidential candidate) Viktor Yanukovych to issue an intriguing statement to an interviewer …
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Adopt an oligarch, help Ukraine

ripts and cooked shashlik over the flames near the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv, we were acting out for a simple reason: the government had …
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Regular Ukrainians won’t take to the streets, but businessmen might

oming presidential elections, another issue is being disputed: Will Ukrainians take to the streets if the election is stolen? When talking about mass …
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Kyiv’s waitresses, and Ukrainian passivity

NT size=3>Pesky waitresses Andrey Slivka: I wanted to thank you for your August 5 opinion piece “Kyiv’s waitresses and the other big language issue.” …
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Sumy students allegedly beaten, as Kuchma does about face

way, as protesters were allegedly beaten by militia – before President Leonid Kuchma met their demands. Marching from Sumy to Kyiv to protest what …
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Ukrainian athletes head for Athens Olympics

Hopes are high that Ukrainians could bring home the gold from the 28th Summer Olympiad, set to take place in Athens, Greece from Aug. 13-30. On Aug. …
Alexandra Matoshko

In Tapegate vortex, more trouble stirs

Dozens of journalists, academicians and emissaries on Aug. 6 attended a conference in Munich devoted to the tragicomic hero of Ukraine’s endless …
Peter Byrne

Ukraine finishes well in Homeless World Cup

Ukraine didn’t make it to EURO 2004 or become World Cup champions, but finishing second in their group and tenth overall isn’t a bad result for these …
Sarah Lowman

Recordings galore appear at meeting

Hundreds of hours of secret recordings made in the president’s office reappeared on Aug. 10 in Munich along with unappealing facts about the former …
Peter Byrne
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