China’s Commodity Exchange has acquired a 49.9% stake in PFTS
China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange has acquired a 49.9% stake in PFTS Stock Exchange, Ukraine’s second-largest exchange, after Perspective. Last year, PFTS handled $3.2 billion in...
russian billionaire is suing banks for refusing to do business with him
russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg is suing four Nordic banks for not doing business with him, Bloomberg reports. The oligarch, an associate of President Vladimir putin,...
Ukraine’s only English-language television channel has stopped broadcasting
“Ukrainian international state broadcaster UATV will cease the production of news and satellite broadcasting, starting from January 13, 2020,” UATV said in a news release. Former...
Ukraine ranked second globally for decreasing carbon emissions 2000-2015
Source: Business Ukraine magazine
Ukraine accounts for more than 50% of annual EU agri-food import growth
For the year 12-month period from November 2018 to October 2019, agri-food imports from third countries accounted for EUR 119.7 billion, ec.europa.eu reports. The most...
Court orders russia to pay damages to Ukrainian firms
The Swiss Federal Court has ordered russia to pay $82.1 million in damages to 12 Ukrainian firms confiscated after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, swissinfo.ch...
Kyiv is a Capital of “Modernity”
Throughout its long history Kyiv experienced many ups and downs, from the early tenth century, when it was the capital of the Kyivan Principality, to...
Prisoner swap lifts veil on russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine
The true significance of the latest prisoner exchange between Ukraine and the russian-occupied Donbas may lie in the identities of the prisoners demanded by the...
russia demanded the release of a ‘Ukrainian fascist’ as part of the prisoner exchange in occupied Donbas
While russia’s insistence on the inclusion of a crucial MH17 witness, suspected Maidan killers and convicted terrorists in the last two prisoner exchanges gained warranted attention, the inclusion...