Ukraine: Ivano-Frankivsk tourist tax revenues up in Q1 2020

In January-March, local budgets of Ivano-Frankivsk region received UAH 1.5 million in tourist tax revenues. Compared with the relevant period last year, the growth in revenues made up 38%, Vitaliy Perederko, the head of the tourism department of the international cooperation, eurointegration, tourism and investments department at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration wrote on his…

Ukraine: energy watchdog approves regulations for distribution of interstate intersection capacity

Ukraine’s National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) has approved rules for restriction management and regulations for the distribution of interstate intersection capacity. The rules that govern the distribution of interstate section capacity for exports and imports of electricity provide for the operation of an auction office, whose functions will be performed by the state-owned…

Ukraine: number of vacancies down

The number of vacancies in the Ukrainian labor market has decreased by 34% over the past two week of quarantine, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has reported this in its weekly economic review. According to the report, during the second week of quarantine, the number of new vacancies continued to decline, although at a…

Ukraine: gas imports up in Q1 2020

Ukraine’s imports of natural gas rose to 2.7 billion cubic meters in the first quarter of 2020, up by 76% YoY, according the LLC Operator of the Gas Transmission System of Ukraine (OGTSU). In particular, Ukraine’s imports from Slovakia amounted to 1.9 billion cubic meters (+99%), Hungary – 0.5 billion cubic meters (+58%) and Poland…