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Dmytro Shvarts
Week's balance: Rada passes 2021 budget at first reading, Cabinet presents country's audit, while GDP decline slows down
The parliament approved at first reading the draft law on the 2021 state budget, the government spoke about a large-scale plan to allow the country to realize its significant potential in 10 years, while the Ministry of Economy announced a slowdown in the economic decline – these are the key economic developments of the first week of November.
17:00, 07 November 2020
Analysis
Andriy Tsaplienko,
Yulia Semenenko,
Valeria Kovalinska
Agonizing choice: When will doctors be forced to prioritize among COVID-19 patients
In Ukraine, the number of new daily COVID-19 cases is on a steady rise. The Ministry of Health says once the daily figure reaches 20,000, the country's hospitals will be overloaded. Doctors will have to choose patients who must be treated first, while the others will have to rely on their own endurance and wait for rescue.
18:40, 02 November 2020
Analysis
Hanna Nahorna
Week's balance: Naftogaz raises gas price for households, Cabinet allocates billions to help unemployed and miners, while budget deficit keeps growing
State-owned energy giant Naftogaz of Ukraine has raised by a third the gas price for households, the Cabinet of Ministers allocated almost UAH 3 billion for salaries to miners and payments to the unemployed, while the State Treasury announced a fourfold increase in the country's budget deficit - these are the main economic developments in the outgoing week.
15:00, 31 October 2020
Analysis
Tetyana Urbanska
Constitutional "anti-constitutional" coup d'etat
Is the new Maidan broiling to erupt in November? This is no rhetorical question. The skirmish that various branches of government entered into following a scandalous ruling by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine "to abolish asset declarations" for officials is not only fraught with street protests, it also poses a threat to statehood.
16:40, 30 October 2020
Analysis
Igor Orel
Week's balance: President defends economic achievements, NBU keeps key rate unchanged, while hryvnia stops its fall
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in his annual address to the Verkhovna Rada said that the Ukrainian economy has withstood the blow of the pandemic and will be able to emerge stronger from crisis, the National Bank has kept the key rate at 6%, and the hryvnia has stopped falling – these are the main economic developments of the outgoing week.
14:00, 24 October 2020
Analysis
Vlad Abramov
Historian Liubov Krupnyk: Among Soviet lawyers were "black sheep" who tried to actually defend dissidents
Public interest in the case of Vasyl Stus hasn't abated, so UNIAN spoke with historian Liubov Krupnyk about whether there were lawyers in Soviet times who really defended their clients, or whether everyone, without exception, danced to the KGB's tune.
23:00, 23 October 2020
Interview
Dmytro Shvarts
Facing another lockdown: What should be done not to finish off economy while fighting corona
President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that reintroducing a strict quarantine is possible due to the increase in the COVID-19 incidence. Businesses and experts fearfully await repetition of the spring scenario, which delivered a heavy blow to the economy. The Cabinet has not yet sent a signal that they have learned the lessons of the past and are now able to lead the country through this test with minimal losses.
19:00, 22 October 2020
Analysis
Мар’яна Бухан
Fear and torture: Story of most terrifying prison in occupied Donbas
Disgust, torture, and death… It's better to die than to further endure abuse… This is how five former prisoners of "Isolation," a former Donetsk art hub that the occupation forces turned into a secret torture chamber, speak of their time they did there. They all count on fair punishment for their offenders. However, will those human monsters from Isolation eventually be prosecuted?
19:00, 19 October 2020
Analysis
Pavlo Stepanets
Week's balance: Cabinet extends quarantine, IMF improves forecast for Ukraine economy development, while Kyiv and Warsaw expand cooperation
The government extended the adaptive quarantine until the end of 2020, the IMF upgraded its forecast for the fall of the Ukrainian economy, while Zelensky and Duda agreed to expand economic bilateral cooperation.
18:30, 18 October 2020
Analysis
Kateryna Zhyriy
Week's balance: New agreements with EU, new digital services, and shrinking foreign reserves
Ukraine has signed a number of agreements with the European Union and UK, and introduced new digital services, while the country's international reserves have decreased by almost 9% – these are the key economic developments of the outgoing week.
13:00, 10 October 2020
Analysis
Hanna Bredihina
Week's balance: EBRD worsens outlook for GDP fall, the stats agency reports increase in wages, while gas prices go up
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development worsened the forecast for the fall of the Ukrainian economy in 2020, the State Statistics Service reported an increase in the average salary in August, while gas suppliers further raised gas prices ahead of the heating season – these are the main economic developments of the outgoing week.
15:00, 03 October 2020
Analysis
Vlad Abramov
Volunteer Aleksandra Voroshilova: My neighbor who was trying to save his house from fire all through the night said: "It's like hell. Fire's everywhere. I think I might burn to death on this roof."
Alexandra Voroshilova, coordinator of the Severodonetsk office of the Vostok-SOS Charity, told UNIAN how residents of Luhansk region ended up in a ring of fire, whether the authorities made conclusions after previous fires, and why some people cannot receive compensation for their destroyed property.
16:30, 02 October 2020
Interview
Vlad Abramov
Ecologist Ievgen Khlobystov: In Crimea, water is consumed in a barbaric way. It's like pouring champagne over the garden
Ievgen Khlobystov, Professor at the Department of Ecology of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Academician at the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, expert with the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, told UNIAN, how Crimea is turning into a desert, what it has to do with the policy of occupation authorities and what awaits local residents.
16:30, 01 October 2020
Interview
Nadiya Burbela
MP Artem Kovalev: The Dutch tell us about solar-powered vessels, while we show them the Dnieper locks in disrepair and a spinning rod as a "secret" locking technology...
Artem Kovalev, head of the subcommittee on river transport at the Parliament's Transport and Infrastructure Committee, ideologist and co-author of a high-profile bill on inland water transport, which is expected to revolutionize the national transport industry and tabled for a second reading on September 30, told UNIAN about the essence of the major reform and the critical state of the Ukrainian river infrastructure at the moment.
10:40, 30 September 2020
Interview
Eva Nikolashvili
Without water: Occupied Crimea turning into a desert
The Russian-occupied Crimea has been struggling without the Dnieper water as local ponds and rivers are drying up, as well as major reservoirs. Amid the unfolding disaster, occupation authorities put blame on Ukraine, while pursuing response initiatives that could ultimately destroy the ecosystem across the peninsula.
14:25, 29 September 2020
Analysis
Dmytro Shvarts
Week's balance: Industrial output on decline, Cabinet continues deregulation, while Uzhgorod Airport set to resume work
During a visit to Slovakia, President Zelenskyy signed a deal unblocking the work of Uzhgorod Airport, the government canceled a number of outdated acts as part of deregulation, while the State Statistics Service announced the acceleration of industrial output decline – these are the key economic stories of the outgoing week.
14:00, 26 September 2020
Analysis
Vlad Abramov
Minsk activist Pavel Chuduk on Belarus protests: "We don't have enough endorphins to do the Maidan as you did in 2014… We don't want deaths"
23:15, 25 September 2020
Interview
Iryna Kovalenko,
Vladyslav Lazar
Forex swings. Should we expect dollar at UAH 30 at year-end
By the end of this year, the dollar should not exceed the corridor set in the state budget of Ukraine at UAH 29.50. But will it stay within these limits? Or Should we expect a dollar at UAH 30 and above?
18:00, 21 September 2020
Analysis
Oleksandr Kunytskyy
Week's balance: Cabinet submits budget draft to Rada, Zelensky promises "human" salaries and pensions, while hryvnia keeps weakening
The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to parliament the draft state budget for 2021, which provides for a budget deficit of 6% of GDP, President Zelensky promised Ukrainians to raise salaries and pensions to the "human level", while the hryvnia continued to lose ground – these are the key economic developments of the outgoing week.
15:00, 20 September 2020
Analysis
Andriy Tsaplienko, Serhiy Shchekochikhin, Vitaliy Tkachuk
A step short of betrayal: Enemy never made it to inspect Ukraine's positions in Donbas
Information about the "joint inspection" of Ukrainian positions near Shumy had the effect of a blasting bomb on many Ukrainians. Allowing the enemy into our trenches was not simply about "making concessions for the sake of peace," but about humiliating Ukrainian military and, ultimately, realizing the Kremlin's long-held dream of turning the war into an "internal Ukrainian conflict" in the eyes of international community.
14:00, 14 September 2020
Analysis
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