Ukraine

Resolution sets floor on tender prices

The State Privatization Fund announced sales of stakes in three new companies during the week ending July 11, including a commercial tender for a 15 …
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14 vying to be next president

Maybe President Leonid Kuchma wasn't obstructing the signature-collection process after all. Fourteen candidates – a large number by any standard …
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Pesticides cut off from farms

Foreign suppliers and Ukrainian distributors of agrichemicals predicted 'considerable cutbacks' in plant-protection supplies products six …
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Ukraine goes digital with Ericsson phone deal

Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has signed a multi-million dollar deal to supply a digital-transmission network to Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's …
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Turning off nuclear power once and for all

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived Kyiv on July 9 to ask President Leonid Kuchma to shut down Chernobyl permanently and replace the last …
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Ukraine’s U.N. development ranking still poor

Ukrainians are dying sooner, living poorer and their numbers are steadily shrinking, the United Nations found in its 1999 Human Development Report, …
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Chernobyl, nuclear-power disputes indicate that Ukraine still waiting for a seat at the world table

Viewed alone, the battle over Western assistance for financing the construction of the Rivne 4 and Khmelnitsky 2 reactors may seem like nothing more …
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Big external debts push Ukraine toward default

Ukraine's mountainous external debts and isolation from international capital markets have raised the question: Will Ukraine be forced to …
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Big ad key to Nemiroff's plan to conquer vodka market

Besides telecommunications and cigarettes, vodka seems to be the most heavily advertised product in Ukraine. The recent sprouting of a huge, red neon …
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Coca-Cola losing its fizz?

Worried about bad publicity in the wake of a tainted-cola scare in Belgium, Coca-Cola Ukraine Ltd. trucked a busload of journalists out to its …
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Record heat melts Ukraine

they can peel off as many clothes as possible. They march by the thousands to the nation's rivers and lakes, or they wade in the city's …
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Mak Smak back on the attack

vings into a underground pizza shop by the Pechersk Metro stop. Their optimistic bet: selling slices of cheap and piping hot pizza should be …
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New sheriff in town to fight piracy

Talk about tough jobs. In a nation in which copyright infringement is the norm, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is …
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Poor U.N. rating irks Ukraine

The United Nations calculates that Ukrainians live slightly better than Uzbeks, but still much worse than Sri Lankans. Ukraine's highest officials …
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How to find the right ad agency

Ukrainian companies new to the world of advertising – as many are – may find themselves in need of a good ad agency to help promote their products or …
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It is not the West’s fault, Kuchma

President Leonid Kuchma lashed out against the West, especially the European Union, for not doing enough to support Ukraine’s tough transition to …
Editorial

Got the Baltic blues

After a five-year absence, I made it back to Latvia recently. I went partly for recreation, but also partly to check out how things were going in …
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Ukraine woos Russians to rescue decrepit oil giant

The Ukrainian government is actively dangling a majority stake in the country's largest oil refinery to the Russians. But the Russians aren't …
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