The following is the March 12, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. After two years of no flights and a 20-hour train trip just to get from Kyiv to the
Anna Apostol says there’s only one thing she doesn’t love about being a co-founder of the Kyiv-based online programming school Mate academy: that people sometimes think her husband and co-founder, Roman Apostol, is the “one who did everything and hired me because I’m his wife.” “I don’
The following is the March 5, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Spanish company Inditex, owner of fashion giant Zara, as well as Bershka, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Uterque, Oysho, and
The start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was an unlikely place for investment. Russian attacks all over the country were destroying critical infrastructure, factories, and homes. The economy took a major hit, with GDP falling 29% that year. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has been
The following is the Feb. 27, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. The timing of the “Made in Ukraine” event that gathered over 400 entrepreneurs, government officials, foreign guests, and
The following is the Feb. 20, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Tokyo summit Japanese and Ukrainian representatives met in Tokyo on Feb. 19 to foster dialogue between both government
The following is the Feb. 13, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Filling the gaps A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in Kyiv this week for a
The following is the Feb. 6, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Life support Diia.City, the special tax regime set up for local and foreign tech firms in Ukraine
The following is the Jan. 30, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. All for show? Following the shocking detention of well-known businessman Ihor Mazepa, business leaders in Ukraine met with
The following is the Jan. 23, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Dark days Is the era of Viktor Yanukovych — Ukraine’s infamously corrupt former president ousted following the culmination
The following is the Jan. 16, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Davos The world’s governments and major international organizations are meeting in the Swiss town of Davos for
The following is the Jan. 9, 2024 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Land for sale Ukrainian businesses can now officially buy land in Ukraine as of Jan. 1 in what
New sanctions against Russia Amid roadblock after roadblock in Europe over support for Ukraine, the European Union finally adopted its 12th Russia sanctions package on Monday after Austria withdrew its reservations over the weekend. Austria’s grievances were over the fact that Ukraine had put the country’s Raiffeisen Bank
Episode #37 is dedicated to the trucker protests that have been blockading several border crossings at Ukraine-Poland border for over a month.
The following is the Dec. 5, 2023 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. An inconvenient truth Ukrainian diplomats and negotiators brought Russia’s war with them to the UN’s COP28
The following is the Nov. 21, 2023 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Grain from Ukraine As Russia launched more than 70 drones at Kyiv on Nov. 25, European leaders were
The following is the Nov. 21, 2023 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Persisting protests Polish protests blocking three major Poland-Ukraine border crossings have now stretched into their third week, negotiations
The following is the Nov. 14, 2023 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Rebuild Ukraine The Rebuild Ukraine conference isn’t Anatoly Sushon’s first expo since he got into the
The following is the Nov. 7, 2023 edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. From the bottom up Not long before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a good friend of mine
The following is the eighth edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Defying the odds Ukraine seems to be running circles around Russia in the Black Sea these days. Frequent Ukrainian
The following is the seventh edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Search & Destroy The business news world in Ukraine this week was abuzz with a battle far from the front
The following is the sixth edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. ‘Let’s stop talking about foreign businesses’ You may start to wonder why so many of these newsletters begin
The following is the fifth edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. The Kyiv International Economic Forum, one of Eastern Europe’s largest international forums, is taking place in Kyiv on
The following is the fourth edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. IT Arena 2023 The war in Ukraine has been one of duality — trench warfare and artillery battles alongside revolutionary
The following is the third edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Fresh attacks People in Ukraine are bracing themselves. Following the first mass attack on Ukraine’s energy system in
The following is the second edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. All is (not) quiet on the western front Ukraine’s grain exports are getting it from all sides. In
Episode #25 of our weekly video podcast “This Week in Ukraine” is dedicated to Ukraine's notorious oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, his unprecedented arrest, and the changing political climate for Ukrainian oligarchs. Host Anastasiia Lapatina is joined by the Kyiv Independent's business editor Liliane Bivings. Listen to the audio version of the
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, the world struggled to understand how it was possible that war had once again returned to Europe in the 21st century. Eighteen months later, the world wants to know how it will all end. In both cases, historians are
The following is the first edition of our new Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. International meeting in Kyiv Last Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian and foreign political and business leaders, including President Volodymyr Zelensky,
Oleksii Reznikov led the defense ministry for 522 days, during the country’s toughest time. He also oversaw the ministry through two major corruption scandals that eventually led to his ousting. Following the latest allegations of corruption, this time concerning the procurement of winter attire for soldiers, President Volodymyr Zelensky
At a small exhibit at the National History Museum in Kyiv on Ukraine’s flag, one notices something particular about the flags from the Soviet times and early days of independence: they’re homemade — sewn by hand with different fabrics of slightly different blues and yellows, the result of a
Since Russia refused to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative – a U.N.-brokered deal to keep Ukraine’s grain flowing from its Black Sea ports amid Russia’s full-scale invasion – it has unleashed a campaign of attacks on Ukraine’s port and grain infrastructure. In late July, Russia carried
