Ukraine

Mak Smak: an underground success

Tucked into a hole in the wall of the underpass near the Pecherska metro stop, across the street from the old Kyiv Communist Party headquarters, lurks …
Stefan Korshak

Russians facing possible food crisis

Commission President Jacques Santer for European Union food aid, but a deputy agriculture minister made clear this did not mean grain …
Interns

Kosovo: no solution in sight

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is a power-hungry dictator who changes political colors according to circumstance. He led the Canute-like …
Interns

State to dump shares in two major steel mills

The Ukrainian government is moving to divest itself of shares in two of the country's most successful steel mills in what appears to be an effort …
Interns

Tech firm goes public, at last

After four years of keeping a low profile, the advanced technology company System Integration has came out of the closet in a drive to pick up …
Interns

IMF tells Kyiv to default on T-bills

NEW YORK – While the financial world focuses on Brazil, the International Monetary Fund has chosen faraway Ukraine as the place to initiate a sterner …
Interns

Crisis takes toll on companies' marketing budgets

Analysts have rendered a verdict on the state of Ukraine's advertising industry amid the economic crisis: it's bad, but at least it's not …
Interns

Pustovoitenko under pressure

that he would consider reshuffling his Cabinet as opposition leaders continued to pursue a no-confidence motion that would force him and his …
Katya Gorchinskaya

State, private firms grapple for hunk of burgeoning security business

Conjure up an image of a Ukrainian businessman and, on top of the obligatory cellphone, gold chains and fancy car, he'll likely be flanked by a …
Interns

The Ukrainian BBC?

The recently appointed head of the newly created Ukrainian Television and Radio company (Ukrteleradio), Mykola Knyazhytsky, is a television …
Interns

Traffic cops, customs ‘most corrupt’

Ukrainians rated their traffic cops as the nation’s most corrupt profession in a recently completed national opinion poll. The competition was …
Stefan Korshak

Cash auctions scheduled for not-so-blue-chips

The State Property Fund has announced a revised scheme to sell stakes of 171 enterprises originally slated for sale via the 29th and 30th compensation …
Andrea Curti

Crisis has Coke looking long-term

It’s starting to look like the only companies that will not be harmed by the crisis currently affecting Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European …
Stefan Korshak

A little hand-holding never hurt

For anyone who cares about the progress of reforms in Ukraine, listening to International Monetary Fund officials glibly apologize for the backsliding …
Interns

Marchuk’s presidential hopes on shaky ground

The presidential candidacy of former Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk has been thrown into doubt by lack of support from his own political …
Katya Gorchinskaya

IMF cuts Kyiv slack

The International Monetary Fund is adopting an understanding attitude as crisis-wounded Ukraine falls futher and further out of compliance with a …
Lily Hyde

Booze tax slashed amid falling sales

The government has yielded to intense pressure from national liquor producers and slashed a recently imposed excise tax on alcohol in half. A Sept. 29 …
Vitaly Sych

Rada: Western quality standards not up to par

The Ukrainian parliament is threatening to deal a blow to sellers of Western products in Ukraine by rejecting a provision of a presidential decree …
Alexey Zerkalov
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