Economics
The Swedish company IKEA, the world’s largest furniture and home goods retailer, has decided to temporarily restrict the ability to place new orders in the Ukrainian online store, IKEA has told Interf
May. 25, 2020
The number of Ukrainian households at or below the official poverty line will grow to 45% in 2020, the Social Policy Ministry has stated, as reported by UNIAN. Effects of the coronavirus pandemic in U
May. 21, 2020
Ukraine has prolonged its ban on Russian websites VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru and Yandex. In the past, all of them were hugely popular in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sign
May. 16, 2020
The Swedish company IKEA, the world’s largest retailer of furniture and household goods, on May 14 officially launched the possibility of ordering goods from an online store in Ukraine, distribution p
May. 14, 2020
Melinda Simmons became the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Ukraine only in September, but she’s got ancestral roots to the country. She is one-quarter Ukrainian. Her great-great-grandparents lived near
Apr. 17, 2020
Ending quarantine measures in Ukraine is not feasible until after a steady reduction in cases of COVID-19, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said. “Given today’s anti-record on new COVID-19 cases, I bel
Apr. 15, 2020
Pakistan’s most famous businessman in Ukraine, by far, is Mohammad Zahoor. He is the owner of the ISTIL Group of companies who came to Ukraine in 1974 as a university student and then went on to a hig
Mar. 19, 2020
The National Bank of Ukraine this week continued to cut the policy rate while trying to buffer the hryvnia from coronavirus panic. NBU governor Yakiv Smolii said that the interest rate cut, from 11% t
Mar. 13, 2020
New York – The S&P 500 fell for the seventh straight day on Feb. 28 and the benchmark index suffered its biggest weekly drop since the 2008 global financial crisis on growing fears the fast-spread
Feb. 29, 2020
U.S. hospitality giant Hilton has announced its plans to open two casinos in premises of its Kyiv hotel, anticipating Ukraine’s parliament approval of legislation to legalize gambling. The co-owner of
Feb. 29, 2020
The introduction of mobile number portability, a service allowing users to change mobile operators and retain their phone number, was meant to help escape “mobile slavery” and to level the playing fie
Feb. 28, 2020
Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of the story originally published on Feb. 24. We have changed the headline and parts of the story. The Kyiv Post reached out to Reddit while preparing the st
Feb. 24, 2020
Since the summer of 2019, Burisma Group, a Ukrainian energy company, has been surviving in a perfect storm. The enterprise has found itself at the center of political struggle in Washington, having be
Feb. 21, 2020
Ukraine’s reserves of natural gas are 13 times higher than domestic annual demand. Yet the country has to satisfy one-fourth of that demand with imports, which undermines its national energy security.
Feb. 20, 2020
The Japanese tech firm Rakuten, which owns the popular messaging app Viber, plans to open a second research and development center in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry announced late
Feb. 5, 2020
Tarun Singh, 21, a three-year Indian student at Kyiv Medical University, believes that Ukraine is a great option to chase his dream of becoming a surgeon. For him and thousands of other students from
Jan. 23, 2020
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Could Russia be forced out of Ukraine, not due to a military victory, but due to the Russian economy's collapse? Increasingly there are signs in Moscow that Russia's war may soon run out of money.
Oct. 3