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Has ETG swallowed Crimsoda?

Who really owns the Crimean Soda Plant, a prized Ukrainian enterprise privatized last year for about $70 million? The answer, it seems, depends on …

Global oil price hike felt in Ukraine

A recent global surge in oil prices has squeezed the pockets of consumers and raised inflationary concerns throughout the world. Ukraine, whose …
Roman Olearchyk

Fozzy says Silpo rumors are black PR

Reports that Russian retail chain Paterson intends to enter the Ukrainian market by acquiring the Silpo chain of supermarkets seem to have been part …
Viktoria Braychenko

InvestGazeta’s top 100 financial sector companies out

InvestGazeta, a weekly Russian-language business publication, on May 11 announced its list of the 100 most successful companies in Ukraine’s financial …
Stephan Ladanaj

LNM Group and U.S. Steel teaming up to buy Kryvorizhstal

Two international steel conglomerates have unveiled plans to bid together for Kryvorizhstal, Ukraine’s largest steel mill, in a privatization tender …
Roman Olearchyk

Movie mags grow with cinema audiences

Whether it’s comedy, drama or romance they want, Ukrainian movie buffs are flocking to the country’s theaters to see one sort of movie – foreign …
Alexandra Matoshko

Arms trader offers new military vehicle

More than 100 companies participated in the fourth annual exhibition, three times more than in 2001, the year the exhibition was founded. “It’s clear …
Viktoria Braychenko

Ukraine less free

Rights and freedoms continued to erode in Ukraine last year, an authoritative study has found. Freedom House, a U.S.-based non-profit organization …
Peter Byrne

In Bonn, Tapegate lives again

A former advisor to Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz on May 25 called on top officials  to reveal what they know about scandalous recordings …
Peter Byrne

Adoption still a slow and painful process

Adopting a child anywhere is a nightmare of paperwork, legal documents, agency fees, and waiting. Add language and cultural barriers, outdated laws …
Yulianna Vilkos

Jewish gravestones vandalized

Some 50 Jewish gravestones were vandalized in a cemetery in the Kurenivka district of Kyiv on May 23, Kyiv’s top rabbi said. Although most of the …
Yulianna Vilkos

CES leaders meet in Yalta to talk trade

hstan gathered in the Crimean resort city of Yalta May 23-24 for a meeting to discuss development of the regulatory framework for the Common Economic …
Wire reports

Donetsk court officials unveil prime minister’s crime record

KYIV (AP) – Court officials unveiled the criminal records of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on May 26 amid media allegations that he tried to hide …
Interns

Court hands down Rada ruling

The president can dissolve the Verkhovna Rada it fails to start its plenary sittings within 30 calendar days of the beginning of a regular session, …
Peter Byrne

The Long and Winding Road: Focusing in on the Uzviz

Kyiv’s so-called “most charming street,” Andriyivsky Uzviz is a lure for tourists: a respite from the bustle of a city that’s rapidly changing, a …
Paul Miazga

Lunch with Intuitive Fabric Fetishist Bhanu Sahni

What’s the first thing Dehli native Bhanu Sahni remembers about his first few days in Moscow back in the late 1980s? “Bad food,” says the merchant and …
Paul Miazga

7 Days in Kyiv

suggest you rip one down as a collector’s item. Ex-pat rockers Speeding Lisa will kick off the summer with a long-awaited bash at 44 this Friday. …
Interns

Immersed in Tradition, and in the Present

“The exhibition is a dialogue with our Byzantine-Slavic mythology, but most of all, with the traditions and the mythologies of modern art,” says …
Interns
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