Ukraine

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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Response to Rada crisis

Ukraine's legislature has been paralyzed. Although direct responsibility for the parliamentary crisis can be laid, first and foremost, directly at …
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Business advice for your local big shot

This happened to me a few weeks ago. I arrived at my restaurant in a good mood and ready to go to work. As usual, I expected to find a parking place …
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Revived project aims at boosting advertising by local firms

Leading television channels Inter and Studio 1+1 are giving local manufacturers a boost by providing cut-price ad slots under a project to support …
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SPF cancels sale of stake in MAP

The State Property Fund has drawn back from the brink of selling a 5 percent stake in the Mykolayiv Alumina Plant (MAP), but says it will sell a …
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Rada ruptures in half

w has two, after the Verkhovna Rada last week split left and right, with both sides claiming to be the country's legitimate legislature. The split …
Katya Gorchinskaya

New import rules tee off drug firms

Foreign pharmaceutical companies are up in arms over a recent government resolution that will make it harder for them to import medicines. A group of …
Peter Byrne

Forecast for 2000 calls for yet more office space on the market

Rising competition on Kyiv's already crowded Class A and Class B real estate market will push down rent prices even further in 2000, industry …
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Engineers fish for reel profits

Volodymyr Ratchenko and Oleksandr Kaplun used to developed leading-edge aerospace technologies when the Soviet Union was racing with America to …
Stefan Korshak

Markets yawning at Rada ruckus

In most places, a warring parliament and a president openly threatening its dissolution would, at least a little, worry investors. But in Ukraine, …
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Kuchma's Chechen War policy is void

The 'new' post-election President Leonid Kuchma appears to have Ukrainian domestic policy on the right track. This may be due primarily to its …
Roman Olearchyk

Council of Europe praises Ukraine for outlawing the death penalty

What follows is a statement by the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly in response to the Dec. 30 ruling by Ukraine's Constitutional …
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Local lands at D&T via yale

Rejected by the U.S. government`s Muskie MBA program , the 24-year-old Ternopil native didn’t give up his dream of studying abroad. Instead, he …
Anna Stepanenko

EBRD loan to fund sale of Ukrtelekom

Ukraine is negotiating a major loan with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to help launch the privatization of giant state phone …
Vitaliy Sych

Azovstal at the head of blue chip selloff train

The looming foreign-debt crunch is forcing the government to sell another piece of steel-making giant Azovstal, but experts say the 20.56 percent …
Vitaliy Sych

Ukraine's ad industry takes ad man back to his youth

For veteran ad man Brian Dobson, stepping off the plane in Ukraine is like taking a step back in time to his first days in the ad industry in sixties …
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Ukraine set to vote again

Fresh from two rounds of presidential election, Ukrainians are now bracing for a new vote that could lead to a major overhaul of the country’s …
Katya Gorchinskaya

One referendum not worth voting for

To those who thought that political intrigue in Ukraine would settle down after the presidential elections ended last November, think again. Several …
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