Ukraine: universities begin preparing subject matter specialists for defense industry

Vinnytsia National Technical University has received a license for opening “Arms and military equipment” specialty. The decision was adopted due to the support of the state concern UkrOboronProm, that officially initiated and supported the new specialty creation. “UkrOboronProm brings back prestige to defense industry employment. We contribute to education process improvement and introduction of required…

Ukraine: IT-experts among the most qualified profession representatives on the world market

This was announced by deputy managing director at Luxoft Ukraine Oleksandra Alkhimovich during the Kyiv International Economic Forum “Technology 4.0 VS Ukrainian industry. How to reduce the gap?”. “We are listed among top 30. Sometimes, our specialists redo the task after highly thought of experts”, she said. The deputy managing director at Luxoft Ukraine noted…

Ukraine: crude sunflower oil exports up

According to the official statistics data, in September-May period of 2015/2016 MY Ukraine exported nearly 3.2 million tons of crude sunflower oil, an increase of 14% YoY (2.8 million tons). The share of exports in the general production volume of the commodity rose to 84%, against 77% in the previous season. During two recent seasons…

Ukraine: gas production up in January-May 2016

Ukraine increased gas production by 2% YoY in January-May 2016 to 8.391 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said. Naftogaz enterprises reduced gas production by 1.1%, to 6.67 bcm, including production of 6.12 bcm by Ukrgazvydobuvannia and a 0.550 bcm by Ukrnafta. Other oil and gas companies operating in Ukraine…