Doing Business in Ukraine

Explore Kyiv Post’s 2019 Doing Business magazine

Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Post’s 2019 Doing Business magazine is out. Get a PDF version online or pick up a copy in Kyiv. All articles are written …
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Elopak is one of Norway’s first companies in Ukraine

FASTIV, Ukraine — The clatter of machines fills this factory floor near the city of Fastiv, an hour’s drive from Kyiv and 75 kilometers southwest of …
Igor Kossov

Odesa’s tourism, ports are brimming with potential

ODESA, Ukraine — Odesa, a city of 1 million people some 476 kilometers south of Kyiv and home to Ukraine’s largest seaport infrastructure, is …
Oleg Sukhov

For Lviv Oblast, benefits of being close to EU are visible every day

LVIV OBLAST, Ukraine — Lviv Oblast has a lot to offer. Located on the western edge of Ukraine, its capital, Lviv, is closer to Warsaw than to Kyiv, …
Yuliana Romanyshyn

What sidelined the Kharkiv Tractor Plant?

KHARKIV, Ukraine — From March 2016 until January 2017, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant was forced to freeze its operations. For those 10 months, over 2,000 …
Matthew Kupfer

Ukraine’s truck market rolls toward recovery

Ukraine’s truck market, which took a hit four years ago during the country’s economic crisis, is now rolling toward recovery, experts say, with sales …
Natalia Datskevych

OECD’s Kiviniemi: Ukraine needs to speed up pace of economic change

Mari Kiviniemi met with the Kyiv Post on June 15 at the Cabinet of Ministers Club on 7 Institutska Street. The location was symbolic for what …
Ilya Timtchenko

Renewables to bring energy independence to Ukraine

Energy security and independence have moved higher on the agenda in Ukraine since Russia launched its war in the Donbas four years ago. Before 2014, …
Natalia Datskevych
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Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Ukraine is fighting for energy independence, to consternation of energy barons

Ukraine’s natural gas industry won a landmark case against Russia on Feb. 28, when a Stockholm arbitration court ruled that Gazprom, Russia’s …
Matthew Kupfer
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Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Kharkiv taking steps to become business and tech powerhouse

KHARKIV, Ukraine — In 2014, the situation in Ukraine’s east was more than tense. Following the EuroMaidan Revolution that drove Kremlin-backed …
Matthew Kupfer

Poll: Ukraine’s business climate improved significantly in 2017

The Ukrainian economy’s attractiveness to foreign and domestic investors shot up in 2017, scoring more than three points out of a possible five for …
Veronika Melkozerova

Yulia Kovaliv: Success of existing firms will persuade new investors

If potential investors had as much confidence in Ukraine as Yulia Kovaliv does, she would be out of a job. At the end of 2016, Kovaliv left her …
Olga Rudenko

Kyiv real estate reform to push Ukraine up three to five points in Doing Business ratings

Thanks to a major reform in the real estate business, to be introduced by the Kyiv City Administration as of Jan. 1, Ukraine will go up three to five …
Isobel Koshiw

Deadbeat debtors sicken Ukraine’s banking system

Non-performing loans have roughly doubled in the last two years, from 12.9 percent in 2013 to 24.3 percent in 2015 of total lending, according to data …

How to open a bar and make money

It was the right decision. Opening a bar turned out to be profitable for Romanyuk even amid economic turmoil (or, perhaps, because of economic …

US, UK will organize forum next year to help Ukraine recover stolen assets abroad

Over the past decade an estimated $100 billion in illicit funds has gushed out of the country. But new commitments Ukraine signed up to at a recent …

Ukraine still stuck in paper world, limiting e-commerce

The rollout of third-generation mobile telecommunications technology, which has increased smartphone use, means there are more e-customers online to …

International auditors start to explore terra incognita of state-owned companies

A government decree forced the biggest Ukraine’s state-owned enterprises to undergo an international audit, a novelty for many of them. In June 2015, …
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