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The Stanley Cup in Kyiv!

on’t understand Russian well enough to pick out more than “Da” or “Pozhalusta.” Novice director Timur Bekmambetov’s freaky thriller is set in …
Interns

Iced Coffee Ideas Abound

Summer in Kyiv has finally gotten hot enough to let you lie around on the beach and get fried by the sun, and so the need for cold drinks has grown …
Alexandra Matoshko

Iced Coffee Ideas Abound

e need for cold drinks has grown accordingly. But don’t forget about coffee when you want to go cold, as many coffee shops in town offer coffee the …
Alexandra Matoshko

U.S. investor says company hit by ‘business terrorism’

Michael Bleyzer is president and CEO of SigmaBleyzer, an Ameican investment banking group that manages the assets of the Ukrainian Growth Fund III, …
Vlad Lavrov

Textile firms stung by the Lviv STA

Officials in Lviv oblast have again paralyzed dozens of foreign-backed sewing shops in their region by toying with the country’s tax legislation. On …
Roman Olearchyk

Auto art driving force behind new business

On Women’s Day, Svitlana’s husband gave her a gift she had been dreaming about: a new car. She considered her Nissan the perfect choice. Apparently …
Viktoria Braychenko

VAT on press products killed

Ukrainian publishers emerged victorious last month from a batttle over taxes, winning back privileges they had lost late last year. On June 17, …
Stephan Ladanaj

DCC moves to develop new system

On July 1, Sweden’s Ericsson signed an $88 million contract with Ukraine’s Digital Cellular Communications to develop DCC’s mobile telephone network …
Stephan Ladanaj

Sistema to buy Kvazar-Micro, reports say

News reports said on July 7 that Sistema, one of Russia’s largest non-natural resources holdings, plans to acquire more than a 50 percent share in …
Stephan Ladanaj

Huge loans to help upgrade nukes

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has a approved a huge loan to Ukraine to help it modernize its nuclear power facilities, and make …
Roman Olearchyk

French connections growing stronger

“Two years ago in France, at a seminar on business opportunities, I stated that it’s possible to succeed in Ukraine,” says Jacques Mounier, head of …
Yulianna Vilkos

Volia Cable mystery deepens

Cable TV industry insiders are arriving at differing views about why prosecutors have launched an investigation into Volia Cable, but the overwhelming …
Vlad Lavrov

Forget NATO, but keep playing along

ne could enter NATO by around 2007 or 2008, the Ukrainian authorities didn’t seem too enthusiastic. Recent comments from key Ukrainian politicians …
Interns

Opposition on its feet

past weekend, they did. First came the announcement that the two main opposition party blocs – Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko’s …
Interns

Goodbye media VAT

ublishing products that had been in existence since January 1. Now Ukrainian media and publishing once again has the tax break that it formerly had, …
Interns

The government shouldn’t be buying real estate for celebrities

that he had presented a free apartment to Ruslana, the popular Ukrainian singer who won the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, to great international …
Jed Sunden

On Gongadze, Kuchma has a lot of explaining to do

orgy Gongadze. The ghost of the man who had managed to so upset President Leonid Kuchma during his short life has been able to haunt him since the day …
Interns

Gov’t ponders Odessa-Brody pipeline reversal

Ukraine’s government has oveturned a February decision that would have mandated that the Odessa-Brody pipeline pump only westward into Europe, …
Roman Olearchyk
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