Hungary is ready to allocate EUR 50 million under a project for the construction of a bypass road around the west-Ukrainian town of Berehove and a road that will link Berehove with Mukacheve, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has said. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Hungary met in…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill on prolongation of a moratorium to sell farmland in Ukraine until 2018 passed by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada on October 6. The press service of the head of state reported that the law amending Section X of the transition clauses of the Land Code of Ukraine regarding a…
Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee has fined seven oil traders 204.325 million UAH for collusion in setting fuel prices. According to the committee, OKKO Naftoproduct was fined for 77.881 million UAH, WOG Retail LLC – 54.036 million UAH, Alliance Holding LLC – 39.711 million UAH, Zoloty Ekvator (Golden Equator) LLC – 16.195 million UAH, AMIC Ukraine (before…
Lawmakers of Kyiv City Council have revised the budget and the city’s social and economic development program for 2016. The press service of Kyiv City Administration reported that in January-September the budget received 27.8 billion UAH, and this was 118% of the target. Kyiv received additional 4.3 billion UAH. “Kyiv City Council sent 280 million…
Ukraine’s Health Ministry has signed a medicine procurement agreement with Britain’s Crown Agents to use 2016 budget funds. Crown Agents reported that the agreement was signed on October 27. Soon it would be specified under what programs and what cost of the procurement would be. On November 6, 2015 the agency signed a contract with…
Roshen Corporation received $72.06 million of dividends from operation of its Lipetsk assets for 2014-2016 and the money was moved to Ukraine. The funds were invested in charity projects and production development. In 2014-2016 Roshen sent 165.85 million UAH to build the Theatre on Podol (Kyiv). The theatre will be opened in 2017. Some 54…
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy and chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok called on the European Parliament to vote for the introduction of the visa-free regime with Ukraine by the Euromaidan anniversary dated November 21, 2016. Parubiy met with Brok at the Jean Monnet Conference, the…