Maryna Brykymova

Business and the government are partners. Politicians and entrepreneurs keep repeating this phrase like a mantra. At a roundtable entitled “Ukraine at the Crossroads?” held last Tuesday, business people claimed that things are finally changing. On Nov. 29 President Yushchenko appeared before...

Coal production at state-run mines has fallen by four million tons. According to Mykhailo Volynets, MP and chairman of the Independent Union of Ukrainian Miners, this deficit may reach five million tons by the end of the year. To tell the truth, the nationwide drop in coal production is only 2.5...

Why is capital running away from Ukraine? Is it because big business is displeased by something or is afraid of somebody or something here? In our country people reflect on these matters after the fact, but first and foremost they try to “bar access.” The State Financial Service Market Regulatory...

Television viewers are becoming increasingly irritated by commercials, which take up 5, 10, and even 25 percent of airtime. After 40 minutes you forget what you have been watching and on what channel, but mostly why you have been watching it. Meanwhile, commercial slogans are becoming ingrained in...

Two-thirds (66%) of respondents to a poll conducted by the Socium Expert- Analytical Center intend to expand their businesses in Ukraine, and only 4% will shrink them. If these statistics correspond to reality, this is a wonderful result of this government’s verbal efforts. Yaroslav Zhalylo,...

A number of oil and gas fields appear to be functioning illegally in Ukraine now that this country is increasingly becoming a state ruled by law. When local tax authorities are fed up with watching such illicit operations, they close down the fields. As a result, natural resources and jobs are lost...

The threat of a financial meltdown in Ukraine’s jewelry industry, as predicted by pessimists after the imposition of customs duty on imported bank metals (gold, silver, platinum, and palladium) and in connection with soaring prices of precious metals on international stock markets (the week before...

Statistically, no more than 5% of all people can become successful businessmen. However, all other entrepreneurs, who are essentially unable to market a new product or service and generate a demand for them, also figure among the self-employed. Luckily, this does not significantly affect their...

Borys TYMONKIN, president, Ukrsotsbank:

To all appearances, Ukraine’s debt policy will soon get a facelift. The parliamentary subcommittee on the state debt has drafted a bill on the state debt of Ukraine, which ties the concept of state loans to a budgeting strategy and innovative development of the nation’s economy. Experts view...