Dmytro Brovkin

Vladimir Kadannikov, elected chairman of the ZALK board the week before last, proposed that the work’s former manager Ivan Bastryha be appointed chairman of the board. Yet, he set a number of conditions. “Seventy million dollars invested in the works must be returned,” Mr. Kadannikov emphasized. “...

Verkhovna Rada’s Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Committee had a sitting on site at Zaporizhzhia’s Auto ZAZ-Daewoo long-suffering joint venture. The reason was more than valid, as the lawmakers had worked out and were introducing two bills titled [in the usual pompous manner leaving much to...

Recent events at the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Combine (ZALK) can only described as sensational. Avto VAZ-Invest management withdrew its claim vs. Ivan Bastryha forbidden by the Ordzhonikidze District Court to sign any financial instruments, make deals, or sign a labor agreement in 2001. Recently...

A joint research done by the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Technical Heat Physics, State Energy Conservation Committee, Zaporizhzhia Energy Company, and a number of other organizations has culminated in project to commission a pilot cogeneration plant. The Zaporizhzhia-...

The privatization of the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Combine (ZAC) is still the cause of mounting tension. The weekend before last, State Property Fund Chairman Oleksandr Bondar and his second-in-command Mykhailo Chechetov accused ZAC leadership of attempting to sabotage the tender, demonstrating a...

November 15 in Kyiv a press- conference called The State and Prospects of AutoZAZ-Daewoo Project Realization was held in connection with the Daewoo Motors restructuring. As Park Sung Kyiun, the joint venture director general from the Korean side, stated, last week Daewoo Motors filed a court appeal...

Managers of Ukraine’s top six steel plants with a 50% plus 1 share of electricity in their production cost have made another effort to talk the president, government, and Council for National Defense and Security into urgently granting them preferential rates for electricity, sending a strongly...

There is a tradition of public servility in Ukrainian society: what do you think are the roots and the remedies for this illness? Leonid KRAVCHUK: Turning to Ukraine’s history, one can see that since roughly 1654 the country had been viewed as a colony, a frontier region of Russia....

The idea of peacekeeping is becoming more and more popular in Ukraine as a relatively safe and effective way to improve the state’s image in the eyes of the world community and simultaneously to combat the poverty and unemployment of ordinary citizens. The Southern Operational Command is forming in...

November 20 is the deadline for a commercial tender to sell a 68.01% share in the Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Combine (ZALK). ZALK’s fate will be ultimately sealed in February. The enterprise’s general manager, Ivan Bastryha, feels an evil presentiment. Despite the president’s support Mr. Bastryha...