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Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
Statistics published over the last few days have confirmed the persistence of the economic recession in Ukraine which began in mid-2012. It is mainly related to the slump in overseas markets, which are the key customers of Ukrainian…
Point of View |
| Sławomir Matuszak, Arkadiusz Sarna
After winning the 2010 presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych and his government developed an ambitious and comprehensive programme of reforms across key areas of social and political life. The return to a presidential system of…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
On 22 February President Viktor Yanukovych, during the TV show “Dialogue with Society” announced that it would be possible to sign a gas deal with Russia in the first half of the year. The deal would involve Ukrainian transit gas pipelines…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
On 24 January in Davos, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Eduard Stavitsky, and the director of the Dutch-British company Shell, Peter Vozer, signed a 50-year Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) concerning a project for the production of…
OSW Commentary |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
In the third quarter of 2012, Ukraine’s economy recorded negative growth (-1.3%) for the first time since its 2009 economic crisis. Q4 GDP is projected to suffer a further decline, bringing Ukraine into formal recession. In addition to the…
Analyses |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
In recent weeks, shares in Ukraine’s regional and local natural gas distribution companies (NGDCs) have been privatised; these previously belonged to the state-owned Naftogaz. Fourteen of the seventeen winners of competitions were business…
OSW Studies |
| Arkadiusz Sarna
The growth of metallurgic production, which has continued almost without interruption since the mid-1990s, has contributed considerably to the increase in GDP which Ukraine showed in 2000, for the first time in its independent history