Currency wars over Ukraine?
Well, I was hoping to write something truly interesting from the meeting between the CIS Prime Ministers that has been held over the past few days in Yalta. Unfortunately, not much worthy of real...
View ArticleFree Trade Agreements – Ukraine
Turkey looks set to be the next Free Trade Agreement negotiated and signed by the current Ukrainian government – quite possibly by the end of 2012. Quite rightly too. If there is a star economic...
View ArticleAfter the elections – Is what happens to Ukraine that important to its...
Naturally there is a lot of interest in the forthcoming elections in Ukraine – particularly so by its immediate neighbours. To be frank, there always has been since independence was dumped in the lap...
View ArticleReducing bureaucracy – Tax
It has to be said that the new Tax Code brought in under the current government was by and large quite welcome and far simpler than that which previously existed. Many of us who have to deal with tax...
View ArticlePouring oil on troubled waters – EU Ambassador to Ukraine
The new head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, (Ambassador for want of a better analogy), Jan Tombinski, seems to be doing his very best to pour oil on the somewhat choppy waters between Ukraine and the...
View ArticleHryvnia devalutation almost a certainty before the year end
On 2nd January 2012, I wrote this, stating that the Hryvnia needed to devalue to between UAH 10 or UAH 11 to US$ 1 by mid 2013. Since then I wrote this, on 1st July 2012 stating it would need to...
View ArticleCombined Heating and Power plant privitisation – Ukraine
This year, the combined heating and power plants (CHP’s) for Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson are all due to be privatised. None of which seems likely between now and the end of the year due...
View ArticleTransparency in Extractive Industries in Ukraine?
Now here is something interesting, not just because it involves transparency within the murky world of extractive industries, but the fact that this even exists in Ukraine – even if only on paper:...
View ArticleProving me wrong – Government intervenes in currency
Yesterday I wrote this stating that it was “interesting” Ukraine was attempting to force transparency in the extraction industries – a place from where the oligarchy wealth comes, amongst others. It is...
View ArticleA day of annual global reports – Ukraine
I will immediately steer clear of the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2012, which unsurprisingly ranks Ukraine at 144th and perceived as corrupt, simply because that will grab...
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