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Business Update: Railway stations, airports prepare to reopen as lockdown slowly lifted

Unemployment has increased during the COVID-19 lockdown and there are now an estimated 3.5 jobseekers for each available job in Ukraine, according to …
Jack Laurenson

Business Update: Ukraine to prepare for possible next wave of COVID-19 infections

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told his country to prepare for the possibility of a second wave of the coronavirus, despite uncertainty …
Jack Laurenson

Energy, ecology ministries to be separated

It’s splitsville for two of Ukraine’s hottest ministries, less than a year after they joined together in bureaucratic union. On May 25, Ukrainian …
Igor Kossov

Facing energy crisis, government gives nuclear power more leeway

The Cabinet of Ministers has allowed nuclear power producer Energoatom to sell 5% of its energy in two-way deals with consumers.  Energoatom makes …
Igor Kossov

Business Lockdown: Grammarly manager Visikirsky says startup to telework until September

Editor’s Note: Ukraine’s businesses have been struggling after the country introduced nationwide restrictions on movement and travel starting on March …
Alexander Query

Business Update: Ukraine reaches tentative $5 billion agreement with IMF

Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached an agreement on new financial support amid the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. An …
Jack Laurenson

Distant but united

For most organizations, the first priority was responding to the COVID-19 crisis focusing on health, safety, essential products and services, the …
Nestle

Is remote working the new normal?

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease in Ukraine and around the world, companies have had to quickly adjust to working in what, for many, is …
Kyivstar

Survey: Business adapts to quarantine, acquires surprising new habits

Only 5% of Ukrainian companies have received state support to cover the losses to COVID-19, a new study suggests.  Just six out of 131 companies, both …
Natalia Datskevych

Remote workplace – is it our new normal?

Editor’s Note: This Business Focus takes a look at how the coronavirus quarantine has changed the way people and businesses work. All articles are …
Kyiv Post

Commercial real estate players confront new workplace realities

The novel coronavirus has changed the way people interact with physical space: less contact, more distance. And now many more people are working from …
Natalia Datskevych
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Daryna Antoniuk

Coronavirus may reshape workplaces for good

For more than two months, people have been forced to work remotely because of coronavirus. Some love it. Some hate it. And the rest are somewhere in …
Alexander Query

Research: Ukraine could lose $53.5 billion to COVID-19 in worst-case scenario

In a worst-case scenario, Ukraine could lose $53.5 billion in gross domestic product because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic consequences of …
Artur Korniienko

Business Update: COVID-19 pushes more Ukrainian families below poverty line

The number of Ukrainian households at or below the official poverty line will grow to 45% in 2020, the Social Policy Ministry has stated, as reported …
Jack Laurenson

Business Update: Ukraine to start lifting COVID-19 lockdown

Ukraine will extend its COVID-19 quarantine measures to June 22 but start lifting more severe restrictions this week. The opening of some public …
Jack Laurenson

Business Update: Economic downturn to peak in second quarter, air travel may return in summer

Ukraine’s current economic downturn will peak in the second quarter of this year the National Bank of Ukraine predicted in a statement issued on May …
Jack Laurenson

Quarantine forces Ukrainian trainers, gyms to go online or go bankrupt

Like tens of thousands of Ukrainian trainers, Nikolay Ihnatenko prefers to work with his clients face-to-face, without a screen between them. “You …
Artur Korniienko
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Oleg Petrasiuk

Business Update: State Customs Service dismisses senior staff, Kyiv begins slow reopening

The State Customs Service has dismissed half of its office directors. Almost all of the senior staff dismissed were heads in charge of regional …
Jack Laurenson
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