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War in Ukraine
Apple has removed VKontakte, one of Russia’s most popular social media platforms, from its app store, the app’s developer has confirmed. “Now some VK applications are blocked by Apple, so they are not
Sep. 29, 2022
Abu Dhabi’s indifference to the war in Ukraine is not driven by the financial windfall it reaps from Kremlin-linked fugitives flocking there en masse so much as peddling the myth of authoritarian stab
Sep. 25, 2022
Major U.S. technology companies have begun moving production of their products from China to neighboring Asian countries. This was reported by the U.S. edition of The New York Times on Sep. 1. These c
Sep. 2, 2022
Bonds: Foreigners Renew Investments in Local-Currency Debt Foreigners have resumed investments in government Hryvnia-denominated securities, but in very small volumes. The secondary bond market remain
Aug. 22, 2022
International rating agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor’s have downgraded Ukraine’s ratings in foreign currency, after the country managed to defer payments on its external debt. Fitch downgraded
Aug. 14, 2022
Tuesday was the last transmission of popular Ukrainian television channels Ukraine, Ukraine 24, Football, and others, as Ukraine’s wealthiest man, Rinat Akhmetov, decided to close the doors on all his
Jul. 21, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russia on Thursday resumed critical gas supplies to Europe through Germany, reopening the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline after 10 days, but uncertainty lingered whether the continent could avert an energy
Jul. 21, 2022
Weekly percentage change of key financial market indicators On Tuesday, July 12, the Ministry of Finance raised Hr 9.8bn ($335m), and almost all of these funds came from the placement of FX-denominate
Jul. 20, 2022
Gradus Research have published a sociological investigation of Ukrainian business owners and professionals, indicating that around half of them are bullish on the prospects of Ukraine wrapping-up the
Jul. 11, 2022
EU
Representatives of the authorities of 42 countries signed the final declaration of the conference on the restoration of Ukraine in Lugano, which condemned Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine
Jul. 6, 2022
Ukraine’s leaders have come up with a plan to allow the government to function even in the toughest circumstances: make every service digital with the help of big tech. The plan to emerge as the world
Jul. 5, 2022
NBU provides budget financing again Last week, the Ministry of Finance raised Hr 7.7bn ($261m) at the primary auction, mainly in hard currency, while the NBU again provided local-currency financing by
Jun. 28, 2022
War in Ukraine
Rinat Akhmetov, a Ukrainian businessman and owner of Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, filed a lawsuit on June 27 in the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) against the Russian Federati
Jun. 27, 2022
War in Ukraine
The Kyiv Post sat down with Alexey Rashchupkin, managing partner at Kyiv-based investment bank Altius Capital, to do a quick tally of the economic losses that Ukraine has incurred since Russia unleash
Jun. 25, 2022
Bonds: Refinancing of local debt is falling Last week, the Ministry of Finance repaid Hr 18.2bn ($0.62bn) in Hryvnia-denominated bonds, but borrowed only Hr 5.5bn ($0.19bn) for the state budget, of wh
Jun. 21, 2022
At the opening of this week’s international conference “Power Summit 2022” in Brussels, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Energy, Farid Safarov, had some positive news. In his role in charge of digital tra
Jun. 17, 2022