Anatoly Halchynsky

This author has repeatedly stressed that the technologies of conflict being applied by the principal presidential candidates are dangerous. Their direct result is political tension that is mounting daily, and which has long passed the permissible point. The most alarming sign is the reviving threat...

For the past four years the Ukrainian economy has shown a steadily high growth rate. In 2000-02, the GDP rose by 20.9%, and 7.2% in the first ten months of this year. Industrial output has shown an even higher rate: 38.4% and 15.7%, respectively. According to all 2000-03 economic indices, Ukraine...

New opportunities are appearing in Ukraine’s geopolitical strategy. Deepening economic and political cooperation with future new members of the European Union is singled out as a principal direction in terms of our strategy; this primarily address Central European (CE) countries forming the so-...

I am convinced that there can be no justified objections to the economic relevance of the statement signed by the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, concerning further efforts toward creating a free trade zone for the benefit of these countries. Likewise, accusations addressing...

LET’S NOT GET PANIC-STRICKEN There was an overemotional response in Ukraine to EU dignitaries saying that Ukraine’s EU membership makes no sense at the time, that the possibility won’t even be considered in the next 10-15 years. In fact, Ukraine has not raised the matter in this context. The...

So much muck was slung at our economy during election battles by wannabe lawmakers that it would be fair if those who made it to Verkhovna Rada repented what they did. I do not mean the representatives of the hard opposition alone. We all remember a curious incident when the leader of one of the...

The most striking result of Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh’s working visit to the US is not so much specific agreements on certain issues as above all the confirmation of a very important fact: the two countries are in fact forging a new tolerant and simultaneously constructive partnership...

We view Ukraine’s perspective in terms of at least 6 to 7% permanent economic growth contingent on the creation by the state of the appropriate economic environment. Not merely tax breaks for the targeted sectors, strategic as they may be, but economic incentives for all constitute the bottom line...

In line with the nature of the economic cycle, a crisis (which means the loss of a great part of the state’s economic potential) should be followed by the phase of growth. However, this applies to the nature of a market economy, still nonexistent in this country. What we received is not only an...