Ukraine

House calls are her calling

Nina Gulina is one of those no-nonse women  who accomplish more in one day than most people manage in an entire week. Feb. 3 was no different. At 8 …
Stefan Korshak

Kyiv unveils restructuring offer

Foreign creditors reacted positively to Ukraine’s formal offer to restructure some $2.6 billion worth of debt into longer yielding bonds, but it …
Stefan Korshak

Kyiv Art Directors Club issues call for creative work

The Kyiv Art Directors Club is organizing an exhibition, which will feature a wide range of work produced by the most creative minds in the Ukrainian …
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Azovstal stake sale flops – no buyers

As analysts expected, the State Property Fund's offer of a stake in Ukraine's third-largest steel mill Azovstal generated little enthusiasm …
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Right and left rumble in Rada

The two warring sides of the Ukrainian Parliament finally managed to meet in the same place at the same time on Feb. 8 – but the divided deputies …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Staying home for western degree

There’s a saying in Russian: Forget what you learned in college and start from scratch in the workplace. But graduates of the University of …
Olena Nikolayenko

December surge heartens AvtoZAZ-Daewoo

The troubled Ukrainian-Korean car joint venture AvtoZAZ-Daewoo suffered from poor sales for a second straight year in 1999, raising more questions …
Vitaly Sych

Imported beer market fizzles out

It looks like the party’s over for beer importers in Ukraine. Foreign beers flooded the Ukrainian market in the years following independence, but …
Vitaly Sych

Billing by the second boosts Kyivstar

Mobile phone provider Kyivstar GSM said on Feb. 1 that its new second-by-second pricing scheme has won it a huge number of new customers. Kyivstar has …
Vitaly Sych

Ukraine set to miss privatization goal

Just one month into 2000, Ukraine already looks set to miss its ambitious privatization revenue targets for the year, State Property Fund head …
Vitaly Sych

Western criticism pushes oligarchs toward Russia

In geopolitics there is not such thing as a life-long friend. President Leonid Kuchma, recently a buddy of the West, is finding that his Western pals …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Parliament rivalry mounts

The deputies, split into a pro-government majority and a leftist minority, reconvened separately on Feb. 1 after a week-long scheduled recess. Each of …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Regional ad agencies face uphill battle for respectability

It's the unwritten law of Ukrainian economics: If you're doing big business in Ukraine, then you're doing it in Kyiv. For regional …
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Crackdown on registration angers foreigners

Foreigners arriving in Ukraine for more than three days, beware. The final minutes before your departure might turn into a headache, just when you …
Evgenia Mussuri

IMF probes loan-misuse allegations

The International Monetary Fund is investigating allegations that Ukraine misused money from 1997 IMF loans, and the sides agreed to an audit of the …
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Russia continues to withhold oil deliveries

As Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom issued fresh accusations that Ukraine is illegally siphoning off gas from Russian pipelines transiting …
Anna Stepanenko

Debt swap details start to emerge

The details of Ukraine’s long-awaited plan to restructure $2 billion of soon-to-mature foreign debt have become clear in advance of Feb. 4, the date …
Stefan Korshak

Rada ruptures in half

Independent States governed by a Constitution that grants lawmakers a meaningful role in state affairs. In this light, President Leonid Kuch-ma's …
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