Locomotive in action

What are the prospects for Ukraine’s agro-industrial complex?

Rent seeking on land

How the status of land in Ukraine affects its owners and big agribusinesses

Speculations on the state budget

Some interesting details about the national budget for the upcoming year

The fifth column’s new front

Pro-Russian oligarchs have begun a serious push to persuade Ukrainians that the only way to a better life is to renew “torn” economic ties with Russia. This flies in the face of facts on the ground

Trotting towards a better life

How the life of Ukrainians changed economically compared to 25 years ago

Of vouchers and men

Privatization in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its role in the rise of oligarchy

Odesa Port Plant: Just not yet

Why the auction to sell OPP failed

We can’t—or we won’t?

Ukraine imports many simple consumer items that could be domestically manufactured at a time when a large swath of Ukrainians is either jobless or does not have a steady source of income

The harvest of hope

After two very hard years, Ukrainians may be able to breathe more easily this coming summer

Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel: “The really critical condition in investigating financial crimes is no political interference”

Director of the International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance about cooperation with the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine in investigating financial crimes of the Yanukovych regime, effective tools to search for stolen assets, and mechanisms of international interaction in financial intelligence

Aircraft: Survival instinct

Ukraine’s aircraft manufacturers are finding their niches on world markets

Atoms of Security

Who and what stays in the way of nuclear energy development

The alternative revolution

Alternative energy, which has already become a separate sector in developed countries, remains in its infancy in Ukraine and is under the careful eye of the country’s oligarchs

From servitude to self-sufficiency

Ukraine’s energy sector is going through a sea change that, if successful, should eliminate dangerous dependence on foreign suppliers within a few years

Leaving the Worst Behind

Ukraine’s economy will start moving upwards and gain momentum gradually

It Looks Like Up to Us

2016 should be the year Ukraine’s economic collapse ends, but real incomes and the sectors that work predominantly on the domestic market could continue contracting

Out of the Frying Pan, Into a Fire?

Ukraine’s economy won’t have an easy time of it in 2016, either, but the reasons will be fundamentally different

“We wouldn’t mind change ourselves”

How the micro-merchant crowd lives

Life on the Edge

What is happening with microbusiness in Ukraine today?

Merge and Acquire

Ukraine’s banking sector faces massive consolidation and change of owners

Big Sale Coming Up

The government plans to reform the system of public property management and launch a wide scale sell-off. Are Ukraine’s economy and society ready?

Back on the Ground

Agribusiness becomes the biggest component of Ukraine’s economy. What will it take for the growth to continue?

Slow Out of the Gate

An overview of Ukraine’s new tax system

Going on Life Support

The direction taken by Crimea's economy destroys its self-sufficiency and makes reintegration into Ukraine exceedingly difficult

Healthcare and Education Below Poverty Line

Ukraine will face a complete degradation of public services unless painful but necessary changes take place

Express Shock Therapy, Hybrid Economic Results

Positive and negative results of austerity and painful economic reforms