By Bermet Talant Here are the Kyiv Post’s picks for some of the most exciting deals and events coming in the first half of 2018: 4G spectrum auction The faster 4G — a dream for Ukrainian mobile operators and their customers — may soon come true. The state regulator finally set the date for the ... Read More
Ukraine’s Ban on Selling Farmland Is Choking the Economy Kyiv keeps putting off land reforms despite growing pressure from the IMF and investors to create land market By: James M Gomez and Kateryna Choursina The 1,400 acres of snowy farmland being churned into thick black mud by grumbling trucks and house-high red harvesters could be a picture of ... Read More
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a bill that envisages compulsory video recording of searches being conducted in the premises of business entities during a pre-trial investigation. A total of 312 MPs voted in favor of bill No. 7275 on introducing amendments to certain legislative acts aimed at ensuring the observance of the rights of participants ... Read More
Ukraine is becoming a market of new opportunities and has every chance to join the list of the most dynamic economies in Europe, hence the Canadian business should be mainstreaming our state. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during the Ukrainian-Canadian Business Forum held in Toronto. “I discover Canada these days, ... Read More
After a week of back-to-back meetings in Washington, Oleksandr Danylyuk is tired. He gladly downs a cup of coffee before we turn on our microphones to discuss Ukraine’s economy. The affable forty-two-year old finance minister is one of the few reformers left in Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers and has a reputation as a doer. He’s ... Read More
For the first time in five years, Ukraine sold its bonds on the international market. On September 18, the Ukrainian government sold $3 billion of fifteen-year Eurobonds with a 7.375 percent annual yield. The bond issue was oversubscribed by more than three times. Initial statements mentioned a planned sale of $2.5 billion, so the Ukrainian ... Read More
The World Bank has improved its forecast for the growth of Ukraine’s GDP in 2018 to 3.5% from 3%, while the forecast for 2019 has been revised upwards to 4% from 3%, according to previous the projections given in January 2017. “In Ukraine, government stabilization efforts, supported by international financial institutions and a bumper agricultural ... Read More
There’s a witticism sometimes used among Ukrainians: “may you be forced to survive only on your official salary.” The quip is both a tongue-in-cheek nod to the endemic corruption that is a daily, often necessary, reality of life in Ukraine and also emblematic of a certain self-effacing, survivalist mentality constituent to the national character. In ... Read More
Ukraine has a literacy rate of 99.7 percent, which is higher than most EU states June 2017 will mark the three-year anniversary of the association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, and while the Eastern European state has taken major steps towards European integration, its progress has been slow. With the signing of the ... Read More
