Oleksandr Fandeyev

Pensions will be raised on February 1, not April Fools Day as originally planned. The minimum retirement pension will be at least 58 hryvnias. Pension Fund Chairman Borys Zaichuk, said “authoritatively” during a call-in that the funds are there. According to him, last year’s UAH 1.3 billion pension...

“We are extraordinarily lucky, because one has to submit hundreds of applications to have even one of them be heard and supported!” Thus Oleh Derkach, deputy director of the Ecology Institute Northern department in Mykolayiv and winner of the Henry Ford European Contest to Protect the Environment,...

That the tax and land codes evoke an incomparably greater interest in this country than the civil code, already submitted to parliament, seems to confirm yet again the sad fact that the question “How to survive?” is still more pressing than “How to live?” For it is the civil code that must regulate...

In any country the capital city is the center of gravity for monetary currents, topnotch specialists, and the latest political trends. The capital on one hand, is a catalyst, and on the other, a mirror of the whole country. The capital models future changes and reflects all problems and...

The joint project over which Bavarian and Ukrainian medicos have been working for two years came to fruition last Thursday, when a chronic hemodialysis division was officially opened in Kyiv’s Children’s Hospital No.1. Having functioned for three months, the center offers treatment on 15 dialysis...

The illegal (shadow) economy accounts for almost 50% of today’s total Ukrainian economy. The process of creating the shadow sector is caused primarily by excessive tax pressure from the state. These are the not quite unexpected results of a poll of civil servants and entrepreneurs conducted in...