Economics
Ending quarantine measures in Ukraine is not feasible until after a steady reduction in cases of COVID-19, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said. “Given today’s anti-record on new COVID-19 cases, I bel
Apr. 15, 2020
Pakistan’s most famous businessman in Ukraine, by far, is Mohammad Zahoor. He is the owner of the ISTIL Group of companies who came to Ukraine in 1974 as a university student and then went on to a hig
Mar. 19, 2020
The National Bank of Ukraine this week continued to cut the policy rate while trying to buffer the hryvnia from coronavirus panic. NBU governor Yakiv Smolii said that the interest rate cut, from 11% t
Mar. 13, 2020
New York – The S&P 500 fell for the seventh straight day on Feb. 28 and the benchmark index suffered its biggest weekly drop since the 2008 global financial crisis on growing fears the fast-spread
Feb. 29, 2020
U.S. hospitality giant Hilton has announced its plans to open two casinos in premises of its Kyiv hotel, anticipating Ukraine’s parliament approval of legislation to legalize gambling. The co-owner of
Feb. 29, 2020
The introduction of mobile number portability, a service allowing users to change mobile operators and retain their phone number, was meant to help escape “mobile slavery” and to level the playing fie
Feb. 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of the story originally published on Feb. 24. We have changed the headline and parts of the story. The Kyiv Post reached out to Reddit while preparing the st
Feb. 24, 2020
Since the summer of 2019, Burisma Group, a Ukrainian energy company, has been surviving in a perfect storm. The enterprise has found itself at the center of political struggle in Washington, having be
Feb. 21, 2020
Ukraine’s reserves of natural gas are 13 times higher than domestic annual demand. Yet the country has to satisfy one-fourth of that demand with imports, which undermines its national energy security.
Feb. 20, 2020
The Japanese tech firm Rakuten, which owns the popular messaging app Viber, plans to open a second research and development center in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry announced late
Feb. 5, 2020
Tarun Singh, 21, a three-year Indian student at Kyiv Medical University, believes that Ukraine is a great option to chase his dream of becoming a surgeon. For him and thousands of other students from
Jan. 23, 2020
Industrial production in Ukraine in 2019 decreased by 1.8% compared to 2018, while in December 2019 from December 2018 the decline was 7.7%, the State Statistics Service has reported. The agency said
Jan. 22, 2020
Google has reportedly opened its second office in Ukraine. The U.S. tech giant launched its new research and development (R&D) center in Kyiv in January 2020, Ukrainian online tech journal AIN.ua
Jan. 15, 2020
Ukraine’s law enforcement shut down more than 900 gambling halls since Ukraine’s government moved to end illegal gambling in the country in late December, Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine report
Jan. 11, 2020
Ukraine ended 2019 with a smaller budget deficit than it had envisaged, saving $370 million, the Finance Ministry reported on Jan. 2. The country didn’t reach its revenue goals, but it reduced spendin
Jan. 3, 2020
In his ministry’s conference room, Alexander Bornyakov, 37, has posters of superheroes and videogame characters. But Bornyakov isn’t just a geek – he’s a serious man with a serious task. Appointed as
Dec. 23, 2019