Vitalii SELYK

From now on, Internet users will be able to see beautiful photographs that serve as background for one of the most popular search engines, Bing.com, of the company Microsoft. This information could be ignored and left for specialist publications, were it not for the hand of… Ukraine or, to...

Foreign exchange and gold reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) have shrunk by almost a third over the past 18 months. According to the NBU, reserves stood at 23.144 billion dollars in June 2013, sharply down from 31.364 billion dollars in January 2012, and the decline has become...

For a long time there has been a paradoxical situation on the Ukrainian labor market: along with high unemployment rate, there is an acute shortage of certain specialists. Managerial sphere is currently undergoing the deepest “crisis.” For example, lack of management personnel in...

On April 5, an interdepartmental commission allowed the start of the operation of Ekr1, interregional high-speed dual-system electric trains with enhanced comfort, manufactured by Kriukiv Railroad Car Works (KRCW). The passengers will have an opportunity to appreciate the Ukrainian speed train at...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to consider no later than August 1, 2013 transition to modernizing foreign-developed aircraft types without asking for the foreign developers’ consent (the document is already freely available online). “I request...

Business and government representatives have recently discussed a new domestic trade pattern at an open session of the Coordination Council for Small- and Medium-Scale Entrepreneurship. They met for a second time to come to a common denominator. Each side has its own arguments. The government is...

The failure of the Ukrainian-Russian rocket Zenit-3SL that resulted in the loss of the American communication satellite Intelsat-27, which occurred over the Pacific waters on February 1, could have been caused by a malfunction of a unit that had been developed at Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (DB) in...

It is not so easy to get into the depot where Ukrainian High-Speed Rail Company (UHSRC) trains are serviced and repaired. The 9.8-ha complex is protected with a tall barbed-wire ferroconcrete fence and strictly guarded. There are two large structures inside this “fortress”: a smaller...

Finding the schedule of lessons, checking the weather, reading the news, making an appointment with the doctor… The residents of a small town near Kyiv, lovingly named Ukrainka, do all this… at the town hall. This town, with a population of 15,000, is now a showcase of well-thought-...

The Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv oblast has launched a criminal case on the grounds of the overdue wages to the employees of the Aerosvit airline company and gross violation of labor legislation. The prosecutor’s office said that in the end of December 2012 to fulfill the resolution of...