By Bermet Talant. Published Sept. 17. Russia’s new pipeline to Europe, Nord Stream 2, will cost Ukraine $3 billion in lost transit fees for piping Russian gas across its territory, a Ukrainian official reckons. But the project harms not only Ukrainian economy – it threatens European security too, Andriy Kobolyov, CEO of Ukrainian state oil ... Read More
By Toma Istomina. Published Sept. 12 Corruption and fears of not getting a fair hearing in court are the main obstructions blocking foreign investment into Ukraine, according to the latest investor survey by investment bank Dragon Capital, the European Business Association, and the Centre for Economic Strategy. They have been selected by foreign investors as ... Read More
By Toma Istomina. Published Sept. 12 It looks like flat-pack furniture giant IKEA has finally decided to put together a business in Ukraine. The Swedish retailer confirmed on Sept. 12 that it will enter Ukraine’s market, opening a store in Kyiv in 2019. The official announcement from the company came minutes after Ukrainian President Petro ... Read More
By Denys Krasnikov. Published Aug. 25. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that Ukraine needs to raise gas prices, signaling that he may be willing to meet a condition from the International Monetary Fund for Ukraine to receive its next loan tranche. At a press briefing in Lutsk on Aug. 23, Groysman said Ukraine recognizes its obligation to raise gas ... Read More
By Josh Kovensky. Published July 13 at 2:26 pm The deadline is Aug. 1. That’s the end date of the biggest fight on Ukraine’s gas market right now, which pits the state-owned Naftogaz and its subsidiary UkrTransGaz against gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash, currently trapped in Vienna as he fights off extradition to the United States ... Read More
By Ilya Timtchenko. Published July 13. Updated July 13 at 7:14 pm Top investors and business associations have called on the Ukrainian government and parliament to make a deal with the International Monetary Fund in order to unlock a long-delayed $1.9 billion tranche of aid money for the country. If Ukraine does not receive further ... Read More
The International Monetary Fund called on Ukraine’s parliament to “quickly approve” a supplementary law submitted by President Petro Poroshenko to establish a High Anti-Corruption Court that will “adjudicate all cases under its jurisdiction, including all appeals of relevant first instance court decisions.” The requirement that the High Anti-Corruption Court hears appeals of lower court decisions ... Read More
On the surface, Ukraine doesn’t look much like a country with a world-beating currency. An international bailout has been frozen for more than a year, its finance minister was fired last week and a Kremlin-backed war continues to simmer in its eastern climes. But almost halfway through 2018, the hryvnia is the No. 1 performer ... Read More
A little bit better than Morocco, but not as good as Botswana. That’s how Ukraine does in the 2017 Global Foreign Direct Investment Country Attractiveness Index, in which the country ranks 61st out of 109 countries. And it has slipped one place in the ranking since last year. Foreign direct investments (FDI) in Ukraine collapsed ... Read More
LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) – Ukraine is likely to need a new IMF bailout programme in the coming years to plug an up to $5.5 billion-a-year hole in its finances, the Institute of International Finance has warned. Ukraine is hoping to get a long-delayed $1.9 billion tranche from its current IMF package in the next ... Read More
