What shaped the aristocratic tradition in politics between the Cossack period and the liberation struggle in 1917-1920

Why the Kremlin needs private military companies

The benefits and flaws of PrivatBank transfer into state hands

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

Why the auction to sell OPP failed

Head of the Ukrainian State Property Fund on the estimated value of state assets in Ukraine, performance of the privatisation plan, bidders for the Odesa Port Plant and Russian management of Ukrainian regional power companies

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?

The present and future of IT business in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Week speaks to Ms. Mikheyeva about the humanitarian future of her native region

In 1918, Ukrainian conservatives tried to implement a reform agenda that was free of populism and relied on private property as the foundation of culture and civilization

State monopoly, limited competition and the excessive exploitation of resources was always the basis for the economic model that the Kremlin tried to force upon Ukraine

Children who watch too much TV and play with gadgets prefer visual to verbal communication

Polish reformer Leszek Balcerowicz on how Ukraine can embark on market reforms

Cash needed to avert Ukraine’s public finance disaster will be pumped out of non-oligarch businesses

The persistence of old enterprises and technology leave Ukraine’s economy archaic and uncompetitive

The Party of power us looking at museums, cultural heritage and “sects”

Oleksandr Bondar, currently an MP and ex-Chairman of the State Property Fund, says the privatization program hardly affects anything

Privatization can be facilitated via simplified preparation and sale procedures

Ilkka and Vappu Taipale talk about social capital, consensus and innovation in their home country

The government is trying to get off the IMF needle but is not prepared for the pain of withdrawal. Ukraine’s sovereign debt and fiscal load are set to grow in 2012, and default may become a reality in 2013

Memories of last-year’s government moves in the agricultural sector are still fuelling prices

The Ukrainian Week discovers the likelihood of a dubious scam to import and export goods during Euro 2012, which is being lobbied on the legislative level

The government has shifted the blame for delayed VAT compensation to business owners

Export dynamics, inflation and privatisation help the government fill the budget, while at the same time they are increasing pressure on taxpayers

The Tax Code cut the number of small business owners in Ukraine and opened the way for the unofficial collection of taxes

Ukrtelecom’s bizarre privatization: prepared for over 10 years, to be sold to God-knows-who