Ukraine: goods exports down in 2016

In 2016, the exports of goods from Ukraine totaled $36.4 billion, a decrease of 4.6% compared with 2015 (down by $1.8 billion), the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine reported. According to the announcement, there was a significant slowdown in the rates of exports falling in comparison with the beginning of 2016. In…

Ukraine: milk production down in 11 years

In 2005-2016, the milk production in Ukraine fell by almost 25%, Mykola Kovalsky, the marketing and communications director of the Astarta agro-industrial holding said. “In 2005-2016, the milk production in Ukraine fell by almost 25%, while the cow population in our country decreased by more than 45%,” Mykola Kovalsky said. The State Statistics Service of…

Ukraine: court obliges government to resume consideration of Yuzgaz’s application on Yuzivska field

Kyiv’s district administrative court has declared unlawful the decision of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers not to allow Yuzgaz B.V. (the Netherlands) to participate in the product sharing agreement (PSA) on the Yuzivska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions) and obliged the government to resume the consideration of the company’s application. The court ruling was published in…

Ukraine: FUIB finishes 2016 with profit

First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) finished 2016 with a net profit of 367 million UAH. At the same time, bank’s operating profit amounted to 1.8 billion UAH. The bank reduced allocations to reserves more than 3.5-fold, from 4.8 billion UAH in 2015 to 1.3 billion UAH in 2016. According to the results of 2016, FUIB’s…

Ukraine: UIA denies financial relations with PrivatBank

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, has refuted any financial relations with PrivatBank (Dnipro). According to UIA, PrivatBank board chairman Oleksandr Shlapak in an interview with the Ekonomichna Pravda edition published on March 9, argued that all financial and budgetary operations of UIA had allegedly been outsourced to the bank. “We…