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World in Ukraine: School principal working to bring Canadian approach to Ukrainian educational system

Irena Korbabicz-Putko says her decision to move from Canada to Ukraine in 2014 is the best one she’s made in her life. After Ukraine’s EuroMaidan …
Olena Goncharova

World in Ukraine: Ukraine, Canada prepare for start of free trade era

The free trade pact between Ukraine and Canada, expected to go into effect as early as Aug. 1, has the potential to open the vast North American …
Bermet Talant
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Olena Goncharova

World in Ukraine: Shevchenko, Wrzesnewskyj discuss Ukraine-Canada ties

Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post placed two phone calls to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, on June 21 to speak with two key players in the relationship …
Brian Bonner

Lucky 13: These are top recent investments in Ukraine

Editor’s Note: According to a Kyiv Post survey of business and government leaders in Ukraine, these are the top recent investment in the nation. If …
KyivPost

IMF identifies many problems for Ukraine’s leaders to solve

Editor’s Note: The following summaries are from the International Monetary Fund’s April 4 staff country report on Ukraine available on its website at …
KyivPost

Fashion retail sector shows signs of recovery in Ukraine

During the 2014–2016 crisis, when the economy shrank by half and the currency lost two-thirds of its value, Ukrainians did not lose their urge to …
Bermet Talant

Investors say tax rates are not biggest deterrent to business

Among investor worries, Ukraine’s current tax rates aren’t at the top of the list. Ukraine started lowering tax rates in 2015, bringing them closer in …
Olena Savchuk

Ukraine expects a big bounce in Doing Business ranking

The Ukrainian government expects the nation to jump 10 positions in the World Bank’s Doing Business Ranking in 2018, Maksym Nefyodov, first deputy …
Veronika Melkozerova

EU ambassador Mingarelli talks about what deters investment into Ukraine

When the Kyiv Post interview turned to whether Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is one of the “good guys” or “bad guys” — meaning is he a genuine …
Brian Bonner

Ukraine spends 12% of GDP on pensions; this has to end

Ukraine’s pension system has long been a fiscal time bomb threatening the country. And recently, the ticking got louder. Today, the ratio of Ukrainian …
Nataliya Trach

Life of finance minister: Plug fiscal black holes

Plenty of people mourned the departure of Natalie Jaresko last year as Ukraine’s finance minister after she lost out to Volodymyr Groysman as prime …
Brian Bonner

When will gray economy in Ukraine get any lighter?

To do business today in Ukraine is to come into contact with the shadow economy. Be it in the form of an employee asking to be paid in cash, a …
Rahim Rahemtulla

Company sues Ukraine in bid to corner hepatitis C drug market

Multinational pharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences has found a way to make money in Ukraine. The company markets an anti-hepatitis C drug in Ukraine …
Josh Kovensky

International lenders look to build hryvnia bond market

Two major international lenders see 2017 as the time to start building a hryvnia capital market. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development …
Josh Kovensky

Ukraine’s craft beer industry sees suds, blue skies ahead

The Kyiv Beer League’s Yuri Semenov sees a great future for Ukrainian craft beer. “Ukraine has big potential for development, because Ukraine is 30th …
Josh Kovensky
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Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Grain exports surge as metals, chemicals suffer slowdown

As Russia’s war rages on against Ukraine’s eastern industrial Donbas region, steel and chemical exports continue to take a hit. But as these big …
Nataliya Trach

Yulia Kovaliv: Success of existing firms will persuade new investors

If potential investors had as much confidence in Ukraine as Yulia Kovaliv does, she would be out of a job. At the end of 2016, Kovaliv left her …
Olga Rudenko

Ukraine’s infrastructure needs $30 billion, more transparency

If time is money, Ukraine is losing a lot of both because its roads, railways, ports and airports are in need of modernization — at least $30 billion …
Veronika Melkozerova
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