Ukrainian government plans to spend USD1.8bn on a program of massive reconstruction of Donbas, the war-torn region but it's hard to believe that the ruined region could be revived.
Ukraine will probably once again fail to carry out the privatization plans planned in the 2016 budget. Instead of the USD631.1m the revenues from privatization are over 200 times smaller.
On the wave of public outrage caused by the disclosure of the enormous assets of Ukrainian politicians, the government in Kiev has introduced 100 per cent increase of the minimum wage from the new year.
There is growing friction between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Ukrainian government. The IMF wants the authorities to take meaningful steps to fight corruption in their ranks, and makes this a condition for...
Western ideas for the modernization of the Ukrainian economy are encountering growing resistance in Ukraine. It turns out that some of them do more harm than good.
The Ukrainian government has decided to nationalize Privatbank - the country’s largest bank, which belonged to the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
Thousands of Ukrainians who have already come to Poland in search of work, and potentially several million people waiting in line, are not only cheap and unskilled workers. Educated and enterprising people are increasingly...
‘Raiding’, i.e. grabbing property by means of a chain of formally legal actions, a phenomenon unknown in Europe with its stable legal framework, is experiencing a revival in Ukraine following several relatively peaceful...
The authorities in Kiev are dreaming of billions of dollars from FDI. The Investment Promotion Office at the Council of Ministers was launched in October.
Ukraine is entering the winter season with virtually no coal stocks. Instead of becoming independent from supplies of strategic anthracite and the decisions of the Kremlin, the government decided to acquire the raw material from...