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  • Ukrainian cabinet publishes priority action plan for 2016 The government of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has published its priority action plan for 2016. The 238-page document, accompanied by Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine…
  • Chief banker says Ukraine past peak of crisis Ukraine has passed the peak of the crisis, the nation's central bank governor Valeriya Hontareva told a news conference on 9 June. "The most difficult period of crisis is behind us…
  • Ukraine relaxes cash exchange regulations The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has lifted the requirement to exchange points to photocopy the IDs of people buying foreign cash, if the sum in question does not exceed 150,000…
  • WB: recession in Ukraine "bottomed out" Ukraine returned to positive growth of 0.1 percent (year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2016, and the contraction of 9.9 percent in 2015 was not as severe as previously anticipated…
  • MP laments lack of funds to finance defence order
  • Co-Chair of advisers on strategic reform group Ivan Miklos said that Ukraine's economy will grow 6-7% a year soon, provided reforms are implemented. "In the case of implementation…
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  • Parliament fast-tracks increase in social standards On 19 May, the Ukrainian parliament decided to increase social standards of 1 December, ahead of schedule. According to bill No 4543, which was adopted as a whole by 248 MPs, as of…
  • Fitch leaves Ukraine with low rating Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'CCC'. The issue ratings on Ukraine's senior unsecured foreign and local…
  • April inflation jumps to 3.5% In April 2016, the consumer price index (inflation) in Ukraine was 3.5 per cent up compared to March. A month earlier it was 1 per cent, the State Statistics Service said in a press…
  • Kharkiv tractor plant changes hands DCH Group owner Oleksandr Yaroslavskyy bought a controlling interest in the Kharkiv tractor plant on 27 April, DCH's press service has said. Yaroslavskyy accepted the proposal of…
  • Ukrainian economy showing signs of life
    Andrii Ianitskyi
    Macrolevel  In late March, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported a change of the industrial production index which had had a positive showing for the first time in over…
  • Ukrainian PM suggests dropping import duties on used cars Prime Minister Yatsenyuk has initiated a bill to abolish the import duty on cars that were in use. "I want the Finance Ministry, the Economic Development Ministry and the State Fiscal…
  • Ukraine's gold, currency reserves down by 800m dollars As of 1 April 2016, Ukraine had 12.722bn dollars in international reserves, which is 816m dollars less than a month before. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) explained that the reserves…
  • Ukrainian industry registers first growth since 2012 Ukrainian manufacturing has showed growth for the first time since July 2012, the State Statistics Service said on 22 March. "In February 2016, for the first time in the past three…
  • Poland detains 68 Ukrainians working at illegal tobacco factories Sixty-eight Ukrainian citizens working at illegal tobacco factories have been detained in Poland since the start of 2016, Polskie Radio had quoted the Rzeczpospolita daily as saying…