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Ukraine: Europe’s breadbasket no more? | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times – FT.com
By Roman Olearchyk in Kiev and Quentin Peel in Berlin
One year into his presidential term, has Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich started to deliver on his pledges to cut corruption, reduce red tape and improve the country’s miserable investment climate? The honest answer is “not really”, although the generous might be inclined to say “not yet”. With the International Monetary Fund supervising the economy under the terms of a $15.5bn rescue loan, the administration should be working over-time to clean up business life.
Ukraine: corruption festers | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times – FT.com
By Nick Watson of Business New Europe
Ukraine: the 591 inspectors call | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times – FT.com
Uncertain World: Yanukovych has boosted Ukraine’s stability – but for how long? | Columnists | RIA Novosti
The world’s view of Ukraine has changed dramatically since Viktor Yanukovych was elected president.
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Ukrainian ex-minister given political asylum in Czech Republic | Ex-Soviet States | RIA Novosti
A former Ukrainian economics minister and ally of opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was granted political asylum in the Czech Republic on Thursday, his lawyer said. Ukrainian prosecutors have charged Bohdan Danylyshyn with abuse of office and misspending $1.75 million of state funds. The onetime economics minister was arrested in the Czech Republic on an Interpol warrant in October.
Ukraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle? | openDemocracy
Tumultuous changes to the Ukrainian executive, legislative and legal branches of power over the past months have until recently deflected the public’s attention from another important change in the political system of Ukraine. At the last local elections, Oleh Tyahnybok’s nationalist party Svoboda [freedom, ed] received around 5% support from the Ukrainian population, which means that this political force, which has yet to be studied in detail, increased its representation in the regional and local parliaments of Western and Central Ukraine.KYIV BLOG: Yanukovych takes on the bureaucracy - BUSINESS NEW EUROPE
James Marson in Kyiv December 17, 2010 After the damage-limitation exercise of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's first attempt at a big reform, the tax code that brought thousands of protestors onto the streets in protest, the authorities have gone for a more popular overhaul to public administration – firing bureaucrats.
Four Ukrainian politicians had to be taken to the hospital after a violent fistfight erupted in a parliament chamber Thursday night, the Financial Times is reporting . Though physical skirmishes are nothing new in Ukrainian politics, officials say the incident appeared more violent than usual and is indicative of escalating tensions between Ukrainian
Ukraine Politicians Start Violent Fight In Parliament (VIDEO)
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Comment / Opinion - Ukraine seeks a European economic future
Ukraine's already weak democracy has just received three body blows from the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. On Sept. 7, Ukraine's parliament passed a law effectively depriving the inhabitants of Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, of self-rule. According to the law, the executive functions of the city now belong to the so-called Kiev City State Administration.
Alexander Motyl: Yanukovych's Democratic Steamroller - WSJ.com
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©2007-2012 «Український тиждень»Putin Luring Ukraine in First Ruble Debt as Dollar Sale Pulled : Ukraine News by UNIAN
Ukraine may sell ruble debt for the first time as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s government builds ties with former Soviet states and promotes its currency as a regional alternative to the dollar. Officials from Ukraine’s finance ministry met Russian counterparts twice to discuss a ruble bond, Ukraine’s Deputy Economy Minister Valery Muntiyan said in a July 23 interview in Kiev, without specifying how much debt the government may sell. Ukraine abandoned a $2 billion issue this month as international investors demanded higher yields than the government was willing to pay, according to a July 15 finance ministry statement.Vice Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Mykola Tomenko has said that the Regions Party is planning to propose that the factions of the Communist Party, the Bloc of Lytvyn and individual MPs vote to reverse the political reform conducted in 2004 in exchange for extending their time as people's deputies until 2015.
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Fitch affirms Ukraine at 'B' with negative outlook / News / NRCU
Conscise economic account of Ukraine's situation mid-Oct 2009. by Oct 15