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Business Update: Ukraine International Airlines moves to cut 900 jobs, country opens some EU borders

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has started the process of firing 900 of its employees, and plans to reduce the size of its long-haul fleet, UIA …
Jack Laurenson

Farmers rail against quotas on fertilizer imports

Quotas on fertilizer imports would bleed Ukrainian agriculture dry to enrich oligarchs, protesters came out to tell the Cabinet of Ministers.  A rally …
Igor Kossov

Reuters: Apartment-bound Ukrainians check out portable homes

Business is thriving for a company manufacturing portable houses in Ukraine as people cooped up in tower blocks under lockdown yearn to live closer to …
Reuters

UNIAN: Agricultural associations ask Zelensky to prevent quotas for fertilizer imports

Head of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Farmers Ivan Slobodianyk says more than 10 agricultural associations have appealed to Ukrainian President …
UNIAN

UNIAN: PrivatBank extends loan holidays for small-, medium-sized businesses

Ukraine’s largest state-owned PrivatBank says it has extended loan holidays until the end of July 2020 for small- and medium-sized …
UNIAN

Bne IntelliNews: Foreign share of Ukraine’s domestic bonds falling, demand for fresh debt spluttering

Foreign investors piled into Ukraine’s local debt market since it was hooked up to Clearstream’s international payment and settlement system last …
Bne Intellinews

Ukrzaliznytsia to create Railway Station Company branch from July 1

The board of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia has decided to create the Railway Station Company branch from July 1, 2020 with the aim of making railway stations …
Interfax-Ukraine

UNIAN: NBU speaks of hryvnia’s post-quarantine prospects

After the quarantine is lifted, the demand for foreign currency will gradually recover, while the Ukrainian hryvnia will fluctuate in both directions …
UNIAN

UNIAN: Hryvnia weakens to Hr 27.00 to US dollar on May 28

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on May 27 set the official forex rate of the hryvnia for May 28, at Hr 27.00 to the U.S. dollar, which made the …
UNIAN

UNIAN: World Bank’s Doing Business – Ukraine’s government aims at Top 30

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has set tasks to improve the country’s position in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking so that it could enter the …
UNIAN

Ukraine should use crisis as opportunity to modernize its economy (VIDEO)

Ukraine has the resources to overcome the global financial crisis caused by COVID-19 and, in fact, should use it as an opportunity to leap forward, …
Alexander Query

Business Update: Kyiv to lift more lockdown restrictions, railway ticket offices open

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv is to open hotels, shopping and leisure centers on May 30. Shopping and entertainment centers in Kyiv will start operating …
Jack Laurenson

UNIAN: Expert predicts strengthening of hryvnia

Analyst at Univer Investment Group Mykhailo Fedorov says receiving a loan tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will allow the hryvnia, …
UNIAN

UkrInform: Ukraine’s economy could fall by 6-7% in 2020

Ukraine’s economy could contract 6-7% in 2020, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Dmytro Sologub has said in an interview with …
UkrInform

Crisis on high: The DTEK story, as told by Maxim Timchenko

When DTEK is doing well, Maxim Timchenko says he doesn’t speak often with its owner, Ukraine’s richest billionaire oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov. When a …
Brian Bonner
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Igor Kossov

UNIAN: Hryvnia weakens for second day in a row

The National Bank of Ukraine has set the official forex rate of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar on May 27, at Hr 26.90 per U.S. dollar, that is, …
UNIAN

Business Update: Railway stations, airports prepare to reopen as lockdown slowly lifted

Unemployment has increased during the COVID-19 lockdown and there are now an estimated 3.5 jobseekers for each available job in Ukraine, according to …
Jack Laurenson

Number of new subscribers of Megogo media service grows by 16% during lockdown

The number of new users of the Megogo media service (subscribers and unregistered users) in the past several months grew by 16%, Megogo Strategic …
Interfax-Ukraine
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