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Prime Minister of Ukraine advocates the sale of 3,500 state-owned enterprises
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced his intention to sell inefficient state-owned enterprises. According to him, the move would enable Ukraine to attract additional investment and accelerate economic growth.
"We have 3,500 state-owned enterprises in the country. It is absurd, because most of these enterprises are either inefficient, or have become feeders for corrupt officials… My position is as follows: those [enterprises] that are not of national significance and …
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Missing Ukrainian property was found on the territory of the separatist Luhansk and Donetsk People's republics
Author: Dmytro Snegiryov, Head of Prava Sprava public initiative.
On March 23, 2017, the press service of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia published a report indicating that as of March 22, 2017, there are 29,375 freight cars, including 5,879 freight cars owned by other Ukrainian companies in the uncontrolled territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In addition, 226 diesel locomotives, 68 electric locomotives, 49 diesel cars, and 94 electric cars owned by Ukrzaliznytsia remain in the uncontrolled …
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The IMF will meet on April 3rd to discuss continuation of cooperation with Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider the continuation of cooperation with Ukraine on April 3. This was stated by the Resident Representative of the IMF in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher. Later, the date of the meeting on Ukraine appeared on the official website of the IMF.
Earlier, a meeting on the allocation of $ 1 billion to Ukraine was scheduled for March 20, but the IMF has postponed it. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said that the delay was caused by the change in the …
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National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine conducts searches of National Bank
On March 29, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) conducted searches on the premises of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). The NBU press-service reported that the searches and seizure of documents were done in accordance with the ruling of the Solomyanskiy District Court. However, the NBU did not specify which criminal proceedings this relates to.
Vitaly Bala, analyst at the Situations Modeling Agency, believes that the searches at the National Bank are in connection with the …
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Media: Ukraine threatened with suspension from Eurovision
If a decision is not reached in the near future regarding Russia’s participation in Eurovision, Ukraine may be excluded from the list of participants, stated Ingrid Deltenre, the Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is the organizer of Eurovision.
In an interview with the Swiss newspaper Blick, she called the ban of the Russian contestant “absolutely unacceptable.”
According to her, negotiations are now underway with the Prime Minister and President of Ukraine to …