Tetiana Mamalyha

Experts raise the alarm: fish are disappearing in the country. In the early 1950s, one could fish some 50 different species of fish in the Dnipro. According to experts, now this region, previously abundant in fish, has just about two dozen kinds left. Yet mainly crucians are fished. In the 1930s...

Experts concluded that Ukrainians take up more new loans than they return their previous ones. The size of the loan portfolio for individuals in hryvnias has been growing for two months in a row, and reached 60.522 billion hryvnias in August.Mainly retail and automobile loans have been resumed in...

The Lemma joint-stock insurance company and the Technological Research Institute of Transcription, Translation and Replication (NTI TTR) have announced the launch of a health care pilot project — the MIC HEIWA software and hardware complex (“heiwa” means “world” in Japanese). According to the...

During the current crisis Ukrainians are paying increasingly less attention to career growth and development, their salaries, and even the tasks and functions they are supposed to do in new jobs, while the criterion of company’s stability is now 20 times more important than twoyears ago. These are...

Nearly half (45 percent) of Ukrainian companies suffer from economic crimes, their administrations have found. At the same time, this indicator is only one-third worldwide. These data were made public in the annual worldwide survey of economic crime by PricewaterhouseCoopers. This is the first time...

After two summer months marking a second round in consumer moods getting from bad to worse, August 2009 showed a degree of optimism, reads a press release based on a joint project by GfK and the International Center for Advanced Studies of Consumer Moods in Ukraine. The researchers estimate that...

Ukraine’s tourism sector is showing new tendencies. When the economic crisis struck, it seemed that the tourism business was in for losses because it is easiest to save on leisure. However, Anatolii Pakhlia, head of the State Tourism and Resorts Service, says the sector is developing, rather than...

In defiance of the claims that Ukraine does not have any market for organic food, the demand for organic products (grown without pesticides, genetically modified organisms, mineral fertilizers, and synthetic plant growth hormones) is increasing, experts say.There is hardly any country in the world...

The European Union has provided Ukraine with three million euros to carry out the project “Technical Assistance to the Ukrainian Quality Infrastruc­ture.” The organizers of the project say that its main goal is to help strengthen and modernize quality control institutions (all aspects of metrology...

Despite the financial crisis Ukrainians show no signs of slowing down their consumption rate. In fact, they are stepping it up, as evidenced by the direct sales market. At present, it has a comparatively free niche; there are a constantly increasing number of orders, while the world’s leading...