Natalia Huzenko

Money is becoming more expensive all over the world. Therefore, assets will be sold despite the political situation. Evidence of this is foreign investors’ interest in acquiring Ukrainian banks. What is most interesting, however, is that foreign capital has lately been attracted not only by the...

There is a saying: if the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad will go to the mountain. The same thing is happening with foreign investments in Ukraine. Since foreign investors still have many prejudices about our country and are afraid to invest here because they are not familiar with...

EBRD transport director Riccardo Puliti pointed out that passing special laws is not enough. Since all such projects are long term, some political continuity is crucial, as well as a stable policy of government purchases, an issue that Ukraine has problems with at the moment, and a special agency...

The expert community concluded long ago that the state cannot be an effective owner. But Natalia Kuznetsova, a member of the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine believes that the point is not whether it can be a proprietor, but whether it has a program of management for the property it owns. “A...

Public trust in the banking system, or in any other system, is not eternal and above all depends on the quality of its work. This became crystal clear after several commercial banks recently went bankrupt. Olbank, Garant, Kyiv Universal Bank, and Interkontynentbank started up at different times,...

Now that Ukraine has market economy status, the next destination points are the WTO and EU, where we won’t be admitted without European rules. Therefore, our ranking bureaucrats have turned to Europe for help and advice on how government services in a market economy country should function. The...

The last bastion has fallen on the road to Ukraine’s recognition as a market economy. Although the United States issued this recognition on Friday, Feb. 17, the European Union recognized Ukraine as a market economy on Dec. 21, 2005. Ukraine’s president Viktor Yushchenko believes that this event is...

The favorite expression of any informed participant in the stock market can be phrased as follows: normal work in this sphere requires silence. However, the government’s initiatives aimed at bringing order to the stock market threaten to disrupt this silence. At least leaders of professional...

Recently I went to a market in Kyiv to find out what average people, buyers and sellers, think about inflation and whether it really makes a hole in their pockets, as experts and politicians claim. Going from stall to stall and talking to buyers and salespeople, I mostly heard the same story:...

The just-published report of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine (DPA) seems to be its first response to the Auditing Chamber’s accusation of distorting data on the implementation of the 2005 state budget. It will be recalled that chairman of the Auditing Chamber Valentyn Symonenko questioned...