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The other 97%: the circular economy opportunity for Ukraine

“Waste” and “business opportunity” rarely find themselves in the same sentence. Typically, when someone says “waste” we think of landfills, rubbish on …
Recycling Solutions

Shell in Ukraine

Key Facts Shell worldwide Royal Dutch Shell is one of the global leaders in the energy and petrochemical industry. As of May 2020, Shell operates in …
Shell Retail Ukraine

Ukraine restores Agriculture Ministry year after its merger with Economy Ministry

The Ukrainian government has restored the Agriculture Ministry on July 9, a year after it was merged with the Economy Ministry. Ukraine is one of the …
Dylan Carter

US fines Amazon for delivering orders to annexed Crimea

The United States has fined e-commerce giant Amazon for delivering goods to individuals or entities subject to U.S. sanctions, including to ones on …
Thaisa Semenova

Distressed M&A in Ukraine: buying outpaces selling

AVELLUM researched how the coronavirus outbreak affected the plans of businesses to purchase or sell assets or companies in the next 6 to 12 …
Avellum Law Firm

Former head of central bank Gontareva and SBU gloves off over Smolii dismissal 

Former governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontareva called out the Secret Service of Ukraine on July 8. Earlier that day, the state law …
Alexander Query

The foreign investor in Ukrainian large-scale privatization

In recent years, privatization has risen as a priority for the government of Ukraine. Fundamental to these efforts was the enactment of a law …
GOLAW Law Firm

Low-cost Ryanair launches new routes from Ukraine to Italy in October

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced it’s launching 16 new routes between Ukraine and Italy in winter 2020 and summer 2021.  This includes …
Thaisa Semenova

M&A in COVID-19 era highlights recurring investment issues in Ukraine (VIDEO)

Watch the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar on the organization’s YouTube channel. On July 7, some of Ukraine’s leading international experts in …
Dylan Carter

Yuriy Terentyev: ‘We made Anti-Monopoly Committee an effective team’

Editor’s Note: This story was written based upon an interview conducted on June 26. Just a week later on July 3, Ukraine’s parliament fired Yuriy …
Alexander Query

Zelensky appoints new acting Anti-Monopoly Committee head after Terentyev fired

President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Olga Pishchanska as acting head of Ukraine’s Anti-Monopoly Committee, or AMCU, the press service of the …
Alexander Query

Smolii Forced Out: End of central bank’s independence?

The consequences of Yakiv Smolii’s July 1 resignation as governor of the National Bank of Ukraine didn’t take long to be felt: The day after, the …
Anna Myroniuk

Business community sees disaster as Ukraine’s central bank governor forced out by ‘political pressure’

Yakiv Smolii, the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, has resigned due to “systematic political pressure” — pressure that some believe came …
Denys Krasnikov
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Matthew Kupfer

Ukraine court moves to derail major bank fraud case against Bakhmatyuk 

The Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office moved to close its only major bank fraud case on June 26 after a judgment was handed down the previous day by …
Jack Laurenson

Report alleges illegal timber from Ukraine used in popular IKEA products

A Ukrainian company allegedly supplied illegally sourced timber from the Carpathian Mountains to Swedish furniture retailer IKEA, the London-based …
Bermet Talant

BEPS implementation in the Tax Code of Ukraine

The widely discussed draft law 1210 has finally been signed by the President of Ukraine and come into effect on May 23 (Law No. 466). This is why …
GOLAW Law Firm

Light Green: Government seeks cut in renewables price

The Cabinet of Ministers has created a road map for compromise with green energy companies, whom the government owes more than Hr 14 billion ($530 …
Igor Kossov

National Bank lowers policy interest rate to historic level of 6%

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) cut its policy interest rates to 6%, the lowest point in Ukraine’s history, on the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis, …
Alexander Query
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