Economics
A Ukrainian model-making startup, Time 4 Machine, announced late on May 4 that it had raised $430,000 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to produce its metal, mechanical models. The money was pl
May. 5, 2019
Residents of the eastern port city of Berdyansk have few reasons to feel overly optimistic these days. Their city, located some 750 kilometers to the southeast of Kyiv and home to about 115,000 people
Apr. 30, 2019
It’s enough to make some Ukrainian gamers want to hit something. WB Games, a branch of the U.S. Warner Bros. entertainment company, has canceled the release of its video game Mortal Kombat 11 schedule
Apr. 18, 2019
The Kyiv District Administrative Court has ruled that the nationalization of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, was illegal. Ukraine’s National Bank said that it would appeal. On April 18, the court
Apr. 18, 2019
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Ukrainian integrated steel company Metinvest B.V.’s (Metinvest) Long-Term Local- and Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘B+’ from ‘B’ and senior unsecured bon
Apr. 10, 2019
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian and actor turned presidential candidate, perhaps wanted to provide the Ukrainian people with clarity and peace of mind when he called for himself and his rival, incum
Apr. 8, 2019
The green smiley of e-commerce giant Rozetka is one of the most recognizable logos in Ukraine — every day millions of people visit its website, tens of thousands order through it every day. And yet, n
Apr. 1, 2019
Ukraine International Airlines posted a net loss of almost Hr 2.7 billion (about $100 million) in 2018, or about nine times more than it lost in 2017, Ukrainian media reported on March 25, citing a UI
Mar. 26, 2019
Ukraine’s gross domestic product grew by 3 percent in 2018, and part of that growth was due to a recovery of the real estate market. Building companies, real estate agents and other market participant
Mar. 18, 2019
Foreigners who came to Ukraine in the heady days right after independence tended to fall into two camps: Those who succeeded and stayed, and those who failed and left. Phil Hudson, owner of Jones East
Mar. 18, 2019
Matteo Patrone, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s regional managing director, has been on the job since Nov. 1 — time enough to visit the six countries of his responsibility: Bela
Feb. 15, 2019
Ukrainian car-owners have registered 65,000 imported cars with European Union, license numbers, paying Hr 4.1 billion, or some $145 million, to the budget since Nov. 25, 2018, when new rules on custom
Feb. 1, 2019
Ukraine has the fourth highest share of contactless payments on total card transactions in the world. “Ukraine has the fourth highest share of contactless payments in the world for the fourth quarter
Jan. 30, 2019
A Ukrainian has become world’s best cybersportsman in the online shooter game “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.” Professional video game player Alexander Kostylev — nicknamed s1mple and aged 21 — has
Jan. 21, 2019
Typically, buses drive around cities and don’t raise any eyebrows as they ply their routes. But this bus is the complete opposite: it dwells off road, and it’s hard to miss when it approaches. Called
Jan. 14, 2019
After coming to Ukraine in 1998, Danish native Torben Majgaard quickly went from selling second-hand computers in his 20s to creating Ciklum, one of the nation’s five largest information technology ou
Jan. 6, 2019
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