Optimism of Davos and Kiev Sadness28.03.2007
“In 1996”, says Yevhen Marchuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, “I chaired the first Ukrainian panel in Davos. It was called ‘Where Ukraine Heading?’, just as the one held eleven years on, in 2007. I propose a toast that we may live to see the day when it finally becomes clear where exactly our country has arrived!” Source: Expert Ukraine
Ukraine's Interpipe signs contract with Italian co to build modern electric steel making facility27.02.2007
Leading steel company INTERPIPE, signed a major new contract yesterday with Italian company Danieli to build a state of the art electric steel making facility. Source: Business Wire
Ukraine to launch costly upgrade of steel plants27.02.2007
Ukraine's steel barons are pushing ahead with costly upgrades aimed at reducing their dependence on increasingly expensive natural gas imports from Russia and central Asia. Source: Financial Times
| The Observer's "Persons of the Year" 200618.01.2007
Ukrainians should be rightly understood as a generous lot. Walk around Kyiv, for example, and watch the people taking care of stray animals outside their flats, or dropping their pocket change into the cups of street singers and the old, whose pensions sit firmly on the poverty line. However, organized charities are often seen as foreign entities, and the best-known do come from abroad. But that perception is changing, and charitable foundations created by members of Ukraine's industrial elite are gaining the limelight. Source: The Observer
Viktor Pinchuk: a man of the year11.01.2007
A prominent industrialist and media magnate Victor Pinchuk has been damaged by the last change of the country’s president more than the other oligarchs. Source: Korrespondent
VICTOR PINCHUK: a film, a mission, and a vision01.01.2007
The setting was a historic Kiev theater. More than 2,000 people-including Ukraine's president and prime minister-gathered together on a chilly, moonlit October night. Source: Lifestyles Magazine
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