Anatoliy Halchynsky

According to data produced by the State Committee of Statistics, the consumer price index dropped by 0.4 percent, including prices for food — 0.4 percent, and services and tariffs — 0.8 percent. Prices for nonfood products increased by 0.1 percent. During January-April 2006 the price index was 2.3...

As reported earlier, the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine made corrections to 2005 GDP computations. Thus, it is estimated that last year’s GDP growth rate was 2.6 percent, with nominal GDP reaching 418.5 billion hryvnias (344.8 billion in 2004). Compared to 2004, the growth rate is 12.1...

The European Commission’s vice-president Gunter Verheugen declared in a recent interview with Die Welt that all European countries will have joined the EU in 20 years except the countries of the post-Soviet space: Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, and Ukraine. A wide debate on various aspects...

After last year’s presidential elections, I wrote about the objective difficulties a society faces when it leaves the phase of revolutionary development and enters a period of constructive transformations. The February 1917 revolution in Russia, which failed to accomplish this, boiled over into the...

The US dollar exchange rate is on a downward curve in Ukraine. It has dropped by 10 kopiykas over the past several days, jeopardizing Ukrainians’ life savings, which means that those who had $1,000 stashed away for a rainy day have lost 100 hryvnias. Most experts believe that by dropping the dollar...