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Signs of collapse

What has caused the hryvna to devalue within two weeks from Hr 2.1 to the dollar to Hr 2.6, and prices to increase by a third in private stores? Is it …
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New channel looks to break mold of Ukrainian TV

Ukrainian viewers used to the same old fare on television may have been surprised to turn on their television sets in March and discover that a new …
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Selling reform to the forlorn

Sept. 11, 1998 When a friend of mine was preparing for a recent interview with U.S. Ambassador Steven Pifer for the government newspaper Uryadovy …
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Kuchma lobbies for a piece of the Silk Road

In a conference in Baku this week dedicated to restoring Silk Road links between Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and China, President Leonid Kuchma …
Nathan Hodge

Ilychevsk port becomes transport mecca

While most state-owned firms stagnate, canny management and a healthy dose of government support has transformed the Ilychevsk port from a neglected …
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MPs waste time again

Congratulations to National Bank of Ukraine chief Viktor Yuschenko for his skilful handling of the threat posed to Ukraine by Russia's economic …
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Godfathers nabbed in Odessa

While economies wobbled from Chisinau to Vladivostok, men described as the Godfathers of ex-Soviet organized crime flew to Odessa on Sept. 5 for a mob …
Stefan Korshak

State grabs companies’ dollars

A series of emergency measures taken by the National Bank last Monday to control foreign currency trading appear to be putting at least a temporary …
Stefan Korshak

Chirac reportedly seals Lafarge deal

When French President Jacques Chirac arrived into Ukraine last week, a privatization conflict involving French construction materials giant Lafarge …
Vitaly Sych

Russian crisis may hinder privatization

After ravaging Ukraine’s capital markets and devaluing the hryvna, the crisis in neighboring Russia is threatening to skewer yet another area of …
Andrea Curti

Joy at victory over Russia

Ukrainians celebrated late into Saturday night after their national soccer team beat the Russian side in the first ever match between the two …
Askold Krushelnycky

New office building looms in Podil

With the financial crisis in Russia seeping ominously across the border into Ukraine, it would hardly seem like a time of peaking demand for class A …
Stefan Korshak

Extra time for politicians

As soccer fans streamed out of the stadium after Ukraine's victory over the Russian side there seemed more of a genuine sense of joy than at last …
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Stranded Ukrainian sailors hoping for Lone Star justice

Sixteen Ukrainian sailors marooned in Houston for the last five months while a Greek employer refused to pay salaries, now hope Texas law and order …
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Patch of color on gray background

After a summer weekend in Warsaw, my friend Marta came back to Kyiv raving about the positive changes in Poland. 'They're so far ahead of …
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IMF loan approved as hryvna devalued

The Ukrainian government succumbed to Russia’s financial crisis on Friday, effectively devaluing the hryvna by announcing a new, wider currency …
Volodymyr Zolotnyky

Sugar exports to Russia dissolving

A carefully negotiated agreement for Ukraine to export 600,000 tons of sugar duty-free to Russia this year has effectively been for naught, government …
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Cigarette companies join campaign against smoking

Inside a conference room on Kyiv's main square, representatives from the city council, education authorities and tobacco multinational company …
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