The Rating of Trust/Distrust of Foreign Investors towards the Ukrainian Politicians
19.06.2006

Yuriy Yekhanurov has the highest rating of trust. 71.4% of respondents believe that if Mr. Yekhanurov becomes the Prime Minister, this will have a positive effect on the attraction of foreign investors into Ukraine.

It is worth mentioning that none of the other candidates received a positive rating.

Petro Symonenko has the most negative rating of distrust. 100% of participants of the survey believe that the reaction of foreign investors will be negative, if the communist becomes the Prime Minister. The following politicians also found themselves in the rating of distrust: Yuliya Tymoshenko (85.7%), Oleksandr Moroz (57.1%), Viktor Yanukovych (42.9%) and Petro Poroshenko (28.6%).

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Analysis of «Odesa sea port Plant» privatization process
22.10.2009

«Odesa sea port Plant» (OPP) is a large Ukrainian manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers which enjoys monopolistic position on the market of ammonia transshipment services. About 90% of its production is produced for export. The OPP made net profit of 787 million hryvnas in 2008, whereas its losses for the first 6 months of 2009 were 38, 26 million hryvnas.

12/3/2008 the Cabinet of Ministers issued an order ? 1517-r «About the approval of lists of economic societies and holding companies, state shareholdings (shares) subject to sale, state enterprises, holding companies and open corporations subject to preparation for sale in 2009» which has defined that state shareholding of the public corporation «Odesa sea port Plant» was to be sold in 2009.

15/7/2009 the announcement by State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) on decision to carry out competition on privatization of 99,567% of OPP state shareholding was published.

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The EU wants to see Ukraine as a close partner
30.09.2011

The EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said on September 21 at the conference "Ukraine 20 Years On: Challenges for the Future". According to him, 2011 is critically important for Ukraine. "The celebration of its 20th anniversary of independence will hopefully coincide with the finalisation of our new Association Agreement at the Summit in December". Mr Fule underlined, however, that the negotiations on the agreement were only the beginning of delivering on our mutual commitments."Several challenges remain. I would like to emphasise specifically the rule of law, an issue which I had the opportunity to discuss with my Ukrainian counterparts at the Yalta conference last week".
Stefan Fule also said that the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit would be an occasion for Ukraine to demonstrate that it could lead the Eastern Partnership, especially in its capacity of a pioneer in the alignment with EU values and approximation with EU standards for the benefit of all its citizens. But if we take stock of our recent experience with political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe, 20 years are not enough for countries like Ukraine, which is still wandering between the East and the West. And what is more important, whose citizens still stand aside the political processes, probably believing that they had depleted their role with the Orange revolution of 2004.

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Ferroalloy industry of Ukraine: current state, problems and prospects
23.11.2011



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