Vitaly Kniazhansky

Ukrainian experts note that sugar exports are irrational The situation on the domestic and world markets is such that exporting Ukrainian “white gold” is unprofitable. We learn this from simple comparison of price data, submitted to Interfax-Ukraine by State Monitoring Center for Foreign...

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued a regulation on preparation for next winter on the same day that central heating was officially switched off in Ukraine and thus winter officially ended.One cannot dispute the document’s timeliness and urgency. This winter only the Good Lord saved...

In their local Trade Department, the two largest Mexican metallurgical companies, Altos Hornos de Mexico and Ilsamex have initiated anti-dumping proceedings against Ukrainian and Russian steel rolled stock producers. According to Mexican statistics, sales volumes of Russian and Ukrainian steel...

By Vitaly Kniazhansky, The Day The State Committee on the Securities Market has prepared a Presidential decree on creating a unified exchange system, which will include the active stock exchanges. The decree was prepared within the concept of stock market development in Ukraine, passed...

Energy companies to stick it to people instead of deadbeat industries Electrical energy rates for the population will be raised 20% as of May 1, the National Commission on Energy Regulations decided at its most recent session. People will have to pay Hr 0.11 per kW/h, compared to the Hr 0.09...

Mariupol taken hostage by Russian Gazprom squeezing debts out of Ukraine By Vitaly Kniazhansky, The Day Bohdan Kliuk, President of Ukrhazpom (Ukrainian Natural Gas), and Sales Manager Yaroslav Marchuk returned from Moscow after negotiating as official envoys renewed supplies from their...

Naftohaz Ukrainy CEO Oleksiy Ivchenko has never before paid much attention to politics or mentioned it as a factor influencing the image of his company. “Political factors within and without Ukraine,” he told journalists recently, “have produced numerous myths concerning our company’s performance...

Habitually a great deal of attention is paid to the countryside and agriculture on the eve of elections in Ukraine. This year, marked as the Year of the Dog by the Oriental calendar, has been designated as the Year of the Countryside here and hopefully dedicated to the people who live there....

On Oct. 20 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine rejected the conclusions and proposals of its budget committee for the government’s 2006 draft state budget as well as the draft itself. After the vote, with 306 MPs in favor, including the Reforms and Order party, the draft budget was sent back to the...

Late last week the reprivatization process turned into a series of juicy and highly-politicized sca ndals involving thousands of workers. Media coverage has turned these conflicts into a favorite subject of kitchen and drawing-room chats. This has led to the widely held impression that it is the...