Estonian startup flagship Lift99 has opened a new hub in Kyiv that hopes to capitalize on the growing buzz around the Ukrainian startup scene, writes UkraineInvest Chairman Daniel Bilak. This […]
Month: April 2019
Financial Times: Kyiv and Lviv enter global top-10 for cost-effectiveness
Ukrainian cities Kyiv and Lviv have made it into the inaugural Smart Locations of the Future ranking produced by Financial Times division fDi Intelligence. Both Ukrainian destinations featured in the global top […]
Ukraine’s military expenditure grew to $4.8 billion in 2018
Ukraine’s military expenditure grew by 21% to $4.8 billion in 2018. Total world military expenditure rose to $1.8 trillion in 2018, representing an increase of 2.6% from 2017, according to […]
Russia violates religious freedom in occupied areas of Ukraine
The United States criticized the Kremlin’s persecution of religious minorities both in the territory of the Russian Federation and in the occupied areas of Donbas and in Crimea. This is […]
Ukraine’s envoy to UN: What’s next? USSR revival?
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, drew parallels between Vladimir Putin’s desire to issue passports to Ukrainians with a novel by George Orwell. Taking to Twitter on […]
Venture capitalists invested over $300 mln in Ukrainian IT companies last year
Over the past year, the venture capital investments in Ukrainian IT companies have totaled $336.9 million. An average amount received exceeded one million dollars, writes Ukrinform. According to the Ukrainian […]
Putin says Russia may offer fast-tracked passports to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Donbas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia may start granting Russian citizenship, under a simplified procedure, to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Russia-occupied Donbas, eastern Ukraine. […]
The EBRD wants to double its investment in Ukraine
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans in 2019 to increase the volume of investment in the Ukrainian economy to $1 billion, head of the Ukrainian office of […]
Ukraine preparing new anti-Russian sanctions due to Putin’s decree on issuing passports in Donbas
Ukraine is preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia because of the decision of President Vladimir Putin to simplify the procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of the […]
Moody’s: Ukraine’s credit profile could be badly damaged because of the PrivatBank
The intervention of a new president of Ukraine in legal cases on the nationalization of PrivatBank will have an adverse impact on Ukraine’s credit rating. The international credit rating agency […]
Passenger traffic is growing at Sikorsky
Kyiv Sikorsky International Airport serviced 638,000 passengers during the first quarter in 2019, representing a year-on-year increase of 44.3%. The vast majority of passengers were on international flights, with just […]
Ukraine appeals to UN Security Council regarding Russian passports in Donbas
On Wednesday, April 24, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN appealed to the United Nations Security Council regarding Putin’s decree on simplifying the procedure for issuing Russian passports […]
Poroshenko calls adopted draft law on Ukrainian language historic decision
Incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has written on Facebook that the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the draft law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the […]
Ukraine’s parliament has adopted the law on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as a state language
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has adopted the law on ensuring the functioning of Ukrainian as a state language. A total of 278 lawmakers voted for the document at a […]
