Ukraine

Russian bombings deflate PFTS

Leading Ukrainian shares lost more than five percent in the week ending Sept. 14, amid low trading volumes pushed down by overall negative …
Alex Berdnick

Kyivstar launches its prepaid scheme

Cellular phone provider Kyivstar GSM 900 unveiled its own prepaid scheme on Sept.10, becoming the third mobile phone company in Ukraine to offer such …
Vitaly Sych

Exchange systems replace tenders

In an attempt to achieve its ambitious 1999 privatization target of Hr 800 million, the State Property Fund is turning to stock exchanges – such as …
Alex Berdnick

Conflict is Inevitable, but…

If there is one sure thing about foreign investment in Ukraine, it is that joint venture partners have to negotiate with one another – constantly. …
Interns

Kuchma speaks with many voices

Language has always been a problem for Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. When Russian-speaking Kuchma was elected president in 1994 and switched to …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Potato farmers rue miniature crop

Tatyana Taranova had been looking forward to this year’s potato harvest. A teacher in Kyiv, she also owns a small private house and vegetable plot in …
Alex Berdnick

SPF wants to eat its lunch itself

State Property Fund head Oleksandr Bondar announced Aug. 31 that the SPF had generated Hr 340 million into the state budget from privatization of …
Alex Berdnick

Enerhodar, the village powering Europe's biggest nuclear plant

Few tourists have Enerhodar on their itinerary, which is a pity, since Enerhodar could really use the income. The settlement of 60,000 is literally …
Interns

Vitrenko drops a bomb: Bring back our nukes

Many Ukrainians complain they don’t have enough money. Others say they don’t have good leadership. But presidential candidate Natalia Vitrenko thinks …
Katya Gorchinskaya

Domestic producers hope to quell flood of imported TV ads

Ukrainian television commercials – like natural gas, caviar and soap operas – are mostly imports from elsewhere. Microscopic company advertising …
Interns

Vitrenko's mushroom cloud

The consequences of nuclear power come to focus again following the French customs seizure on Sept. 7 of Bulgarian radioactive mushrooms – found to be …
Editorial

‘Hero mother’ struggles to care for her huge family

In a nation with a declining birth rate and many one-child families, Lyubov Golyak is becoming more of an anomaly all the time. She has 12 children – …
Evgenia Mussuri

The crash of ’98: one year after

A scant $5,700 was all Ihor Krasnov could get when he sold his freshly renovated two-room apartment in one of the nicest areas of Vinnytsa in August. …
Vitaly Sych

Government sets ambitious privatization target

With massive foreign debt payments coming due next year and hard-currency reserves running low, the government plans to resort to a familiar technique …
Vitaly Sych

State buyout of Utel now uncertain

The tide has apparently turned again in a months-long drama being played over who is to eventually own Ukraine’s lucrative telephone long-distance …
Olena Nikolayenko

How should the president's five years in office be remembered?

At a press conference on Sept. 9 to unveil his re-election platform, President Leonid Kuchma listed his major achievements in the last five years as …
Interns

Company's innovation a life saver for capital's old buildings

Some say that when creaks and fractures appear in the walls of an old building, the only thing to do is to demolish it and erect a new structure. But …
Interns

Kuchma sings for his dinner in Odessa

ODESSA – Bill Clinton has his weaknesses, but playing the saxophone isn’t one of them for the American president. On Sept. 3, Ukrainians learned their …
Stefan Korshak
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