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Economy shows signs of growth

Respected international lending institutions agree with the Ukrainian government’s assessment that the country’s economy will grow in 2000 for the …
Anna Stepanenko

Council of Europe criticizes referendum plan

Days after a visiting Council of Europe delegation urged Ukraine to postpone a referendum on curbing parliamentary authority, President Leonid Kuchma …
Katya Gorchinskaya

DHL launches $300,000 facility

International courier DHL opened the first-ever mail-processing terminal in Kyiv on Feb. 17 in a vivid illustration of the company’s fast-growing …
Anna Stepanenko

Antifreeze-February 17, 2000

Most of my readers probably donХt know that I cook. Normally, their ignorance wouldnХt really bother me, but itХs kind of central to the story IХm …
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Best public toilet: Eric’s

Eric’s Bierstube and toilet 20 Chervonoarmiyska. Flushing from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. For starters, we should qualify this by defining what exactly makes a …
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He Said She Said-February 17, 2000

Give peace a chance; castrate your pet! If I were an animal rights activist, I would immediately launch into a tirade about how neutering pets saves …
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MBA non-smoker lands at RJR

Ihor Kublitsky doesn’t smoke, and never has. How then, did he wind up working for one of Ukraine’s largest tobacco producers – R.J. Reynolds? Well, as …
Anna Stepanenko

Tank shop turns into euromart

Few of the shoppers wheeling their shopping carts around the EuroMart in Kyiv’s Syrets district realize it, but the building was, in Soviet times, a …
Vitaly Sych

Privatization could mean changes are in store for Salyut hotel

Real estate developer F&C Realty has won a State Property Fund tender to purchase a 25 percent stake in Kyiv's idiosyncratic Salyut hotel, a …
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Agricultural follies

Feb. 17, 2000 Ukraine’s agricultural sector remains a bona-fide disaster. Last year’s grain harvest, dubbed by Reuters as the nation’s worst in 50 …
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Readers: Just say no to registration laws!

Seldom have Post articles generated as much response as the pair of stories we ran on Kyiv's foreigner registration laws in our Feb. 3 issue …
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Smooth operator

Feb. 17, 2000 Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko should be commended for his professional handling of the allegations that Ukraine misused IMF fund’s …
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Siberians plot major metals plant

One of the world’s 10 largest aluminum producers, Russia’s Siberian Aluminum Group (SAG), plans to open an aluminum factory in Ukraine, a company …
Vitaly Sych

Fuel firms sqawk over threat to JV tax breaks

Ukraine’s government, searching for new income streams, is moving to cancel a lucrative tax loophole that has made five petroleum import firms very …
Stefan Korshak

Is the 'Chinese' scenario looming for Ukraine?

The recent parliamentary split was a logical continuation of the division of about everything else in our country: parties, movements, churches. The …
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Company takes to the road with new advertising medium

Advertisements, already fixtures on Kyiv shop fronts, bus stops and metro cars, have found yet another venue – the streets. A new ad medium, …
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Mykolayiv Alumina sale draws closer

The government has again steeled itself to sell a piece of the controversial Mykolayiv Alumina Plant (MAP), setting a starting price in a tender for a …
Vitaly Sych

Damning report costs Energoatom boss job

The president of nuclear energy monopoly Energoatom was fired on Feb. 14 in the wake of damning reports in the press alleging mismanagement and …
Katya Gorchinskaya
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