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Conlon: M&A market to stay in doldrums for much of year

Russian Alfa Group purchased the Ukrainian branch of Bank of Cyprus for €225 million, while Austrian AMIC Energy Management GmbH paid €223 million for …
Mariana Antonovych

CEO Watch: Bondar – Investors scared; tax rebates would help

Editor’s Note: In 2015, the Kyiv Post will offer more coverage of the leaders who run Ukraine’s biggest and best companies in the CEO Watch …
Ilya Timtchenko

Ukrainian users ask Facebook for fair moderation of Russia-related posts

Bloggers Zen Antipop and Dmytro Ivanov said the country’s blogging community plans to address Facebook management with a statement asking for fairer …
Bozhena Sheremeta

National Bank of Ukraine’s plan: More inflation

This means turning on the money printing press. As inflation almost reached 25 percent last year, more cash in the system brings another risk that the …
Ivan Verstyuk

Russia still looks like ‘free market economy’ to some of its billionaires

This also pushed the International Monetary Fund, a reform-driven lender that oversees world’s economic growth, to cut its forecast for 2015 and 2016 …
Ivan Verstyuk

Government keeps railway monopoly on balance sheet amid industry’s downturn

As a natural monopoly, Ukrzaliznytsya controls 100 percent of the track in a country.  Due to the ongoing war in the Donbas, company had to cut its …
Olena Gordiienko

Swissport exits nation after losing legal war

UIA reached a deal on paying $433,000 for the shares in 2013, following the first court decision on this case that supported its side. Industry …
Olena Gordiienko

IMF’s recipe will be hard, but effective

“President Petro Poroshenko informed me today that the Ukrainian authorities have requested a multi-year arrangement with the fund, supported by the …
Ivan Verstyuk

No need to leave Ukraine to do booming tech business

The business started in 2007, the same year as Apple’s first iPhone, and now claims multimillion-dollar revenues from 33 million downloads of its …
Bozhena Sheremeta

Expats To Watch: Longtime expatriate finds reasons to stay in Ukrainian real estate

Nick Cotton, the 47-year-old DTZ Ukraine managing director, has no plans to leave Ukraine – and its abundant potential – despite its current hard …
Ilya Timtchenko

Ukraine has to buy coal from Russia, despite war

Coal-rich Ukraine became an importer of coal due to Russia’s war in the Donbas, a core coal region that used to produce 18 percent of the electricity …
Olena Gordiienko

Crimean prices rise sharply under Russian rule

As of the end of 2014, consumer prices rose by 42.5 percent, according to the Crimean statistical service. Prices for the key food items – eggs, meat, …
Ivan Verstyuk

E-government frees Ukraine of paper dependency

This burden can be lightened considerably with fewer bureaucratic as well as the introduction of e-government, a system of electronic document …
Bozhena Sheremeta

Ukraine recovers Hr 3.7 billion ($234 million) blocked by Russia in Crimea

“Yesterday (Jan. 15), we returned Hr 3.7 billion to Ukraine that were stolen during the annexation of Crimea,” he said during the meeting with heads …
Ivan Verstyuk

Cheaper oil best weapon against Russia’s aggression

But there is hope that Russia’s economic weakness will soon hurt its ability to stir up global instability. Russia’s economy is now in recession for …
Ivan Verstyuk

Pavlenko, new agriculture minister, sets ambitious goals for key sector

“​I have a dream to reach production of 100 million tons (of grain annually)​,” Pavlenko said. “ It will give us the opportunity to double our export …
Anastasia Forina

Eating on the run? A Ukrainian startup has application to cut out wasted restaurant time

What started only as idea last summer is now a free application used in 20 restaurants in Kyiv. It reached almost 10,000 downloads on iOS and Android …
Bozhena Sheremeta

Ukraine’s funding gap: $15 billion

So far, Western nations helping Ukraine are far short of the mark. Germany has issued guarantees for Ukraine to borrow $0.7 billion and the U.S. plans …
Olena Gordiienko
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