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Oct. 5 2018, 1:02 pm
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Foreign residents seek escape from Ukraine’s onerous currency controls
Hakan Yazici is just one of numerous businesspeople working in central Kyiv. He runs a print and copy shop popular with students of Taras Shevchenko …
Matthew Kupfer
Oct. 5 2018, 1:02 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Poroshenko’s confusing bank raises questions and faces NBU scrutiny
That a major commercial bank here in Ukraine would choose to locate most of its ATMs throughout Roshen confectionery shops and factories might seem …
Jack Laurenson
Oct. 5 2018, 12:43 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Remittances from Russia go unofficial amid Ukraine’s ban on Russian money transfers
Russia has been replaced by Poland as the top destination for Ukrainian migrant workers. But an estimated three million Ukrainians still live and work …
Bermet Talant
Oct. 5 2018, 12:35 pm
EXCLUSIVE
OP-ED
Graham Stack, Andrii Ianitskyi: The spectacular rise and fall of PrivatBank
Editor’s Note: Graham Stack and Andrii Ianitskyi are the authors of “Privat story: The rise and fall of Ukraine’s largest bank,” a book looking into …
Graham Stack
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Andrii Ianitskyi
Oct. 5 2018, 12:27 pm
EXCLUSIVE
OP-ED
Timothy Ash: Ukraine has stabilized, but giant vulnerabilities threaten progress
As a starting point, a plus is that the economy is growing, with second quarter real gross domestic product growth revised up to 3.8 percent …
Timothy Ash
Oct. 5 2018, 12:24 pm
EXCLUSIVE
PrivatBank’s Engin Akcakoca: Conditions not yet ripe for lending
For most Ukrainians, economic life is still hard. But for Engin Akcakoca, head of PrivatBank’s supervisory board and a longtime agitator for reform of …
Josh Kovensky
July 9 2018, 12:14 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Ukrainian job market favors employees
It’s a good time to be looking for work in Ukraine. With Ukrainians leaving the country in record numbers — 1.3 million people in the period from 2015 …
Luke Smith
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Natalia Datskevych
July 9 2018, 11:41 am
EXCLUSIVE
Lviv comes up with solutions to create ‘brain gain,’ boost IT
Over the past decade, Lviv has become one of Ukraine’s greatest economic success stories, an achievement attributed to the city strategy adopted in …
Luke Smith
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Natalia Datskevych
July 9 2018, 11:08 am
EXCLUSIVE
Unstable economy, war push Ukrainians to leave for Canada
EDMONTON, Canada — Ukraine keeps losing young and talented people: every month some 100,000 Ukrainians become labor migrants, according to Ukrainian …
Olena Goncharova
July 9 2018, 10:46 am
EXCLUSIVE
Ukrainian industry looks for ways to keep its workers
Some four million Ukrainians work abroad, the latest study by the Kyiv-based Center for Economic Strategy has estimated. That’s almost 16 percent of …
Bermet Talant
April 2 2018, 1:25 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Giant Ukrtelecom enjoys monopoly on unclaimed technologies
Back in the 1990s, when mobile phones were a rare luxury, Ukrtelecom was powerful. Then a state-owned company, it was the sole provider of fixed-line …
Denys Krasnikov
April 2 2018, 1:11 pm
EXCLUSIVE
OP-ED
Anders Aslund: Ukraine’s economy still stuck in vicious rent-seeking trap
Ukraine is the second poorest country in Europe, after Moldova. Its backwardness is starkly illustrated by gross domestic product per capita. In 2017, …
Anders Aslund
April 2 2018, 12:56 pm
EXCLUSIVE
DTEK has hots for Ukraine
Ukraine’s anti-monopoly chief openly admits that DTEK is a monopoly. “There are structural signs of a collective monopoly,” said Yuriy Terentiev in …
Josh Kovensky
April 2 2018, 12:46 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Powerful interests fight to control energy regulator
For Ukraine’s richest and most powerful tycoons, monopolies are not enough. They still angle to manipulate government institutions to work on their …
Josh Kovensky
April 2 2018, 12:40 pm
EXCLUSIVE
UkrOboronProm breeds conflicts of interest in lucrative foreign arms sales
UkrOboronProm, the giant state-run holding company of over 130 defense enterprises, is a Soviet-style industrial monster that dominates the country’s …
Illia Ponomarenko
April 2 2018, 12:20 pm
EXCLUSIVE
Pharmaceutical market’s low competition creates high prices for ailing customers
Ukraine’s pharmaceutical market is afflicted with monopolies and oligopolies, leading to lack of choice and high prices. “In Ukraine, the …
Yuliana Romanyshyn
April 2 2018, 11:52 am
EXCLUSIVE
Breaking booze: Temporary director hopes to finally privatize Ukraine’s state ethanol monopoly
In February, Ukraine’s state-owned monopoly producer of potable ethanol alcohol, Ukrspyrt, took an unexpected step. The company received a license to …
Matthew Kupfer
April 2 2018, 11:44 am
EXCLUSIVE
The fertilizer king: How Firtash’s monopoly strangles Ukrainian agriculture
In the Ternopil Oblast city of Kremenets, 417 kilometers west of Kyiv, agrochemical company EuroChem produces a treated nitrogen fertilizer known as …
Matthew Kupfer
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