Serhiy Hordiyenko

Most of the reasons behind foreign investors’ wary attitude to Ukraine are generally known: use of non-market methods, the reprivatization debates. There is also the proverbial sword of Damocles hanging over the 2006 parliamentary elections, which is forcing the government to pretend that it cares...

The aggregate material damage caused by the Chornobyl disaster, including generating losses after closing the station, is assessed by experts at $358 billion. It is much harder to assess the damage in terms of human lives. UN experts believe about 7,000,000 persons were in the highly contaminated...

Primary forms of charity in the form of donation to beggars comes to us from time immemorial, but charity became the norm of societal life with the establishment of Christianity. Kyiv Prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavovych was famous for his generosity in the tenth century. With his charter he officially...