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KYIV POST — January 18, 2013: How Ukraine Can Triumph During OSCE Chairmanship
When Ukraine kicks off its chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the world’s largest regional security organization, it will be the start of a crucial year and a moment to reset expectations for what the OSCE can be. In Vienna, there will be speeches, applause and when the toasts are done. When Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara heads back to Kyiv, some in Vienna may want to blow off any...
KYIV POST — December 26, 2012: Ukraine’s Smoke-Free Law Is Working!
A friend who told me that smoking bans in public places would be ineffective has changed his mind. Since Ukraine’s law prohibiting smoking in restaurants, bars and cafes took effect on Dec. 16, my friend told me: “I have to admit that the law works!”..
KYIV POST — November 9, 2012: Rising Fashion Trend: Ukrainian National Symbols
Seeing men in vyshyvankas (Ukrainian traditional embroidered shirts) or ladies with blue-and-yellow ribbons in their hair no longer means its Independence Day or that you’ve landed in the middle of an anti-Russian language protest. Ukrainian national symbols are increasingly becoming a trend in modern Ukrainian fashion...
KYIV POST — November 7, 2012: Ukraine’s Parliament Orders Re-run Elections in Five Districts
Ukraine’s outgoing parliament ordered re-runs in five electoral districts on Tuesday, overriding complaints by the opposition... The Batkivshchyna of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, far-right nationalists and a liberal party headed by boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko, have organised protests outside the Central Election Commission’s offices in the capital Kyiv...
KYIV POST — November 6, 2012: Good News Ukraine Blog
Kyiv public relations specialist Zhanna Kobylinska thinks there’s too much bad news about Ukraine, so she has launched a “Good News Ukraine” blog that sticks to uplifting news and steers clear of controversy...
KYIV POST — October 26, 2012: Ex-PACE President Cavusoglu: It’s Wrong to Assess Elections in Ukraine Before Election Day
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the former PACE president and a member of the PACE observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, has said he thinks that it is wrong to assess the elections in Ukraine before Election Day. "At this stage, I cannot predict the result, and I cannot say that the elections will be exemplary or bad. At this point, criticizing...
KYIV POST — October 4, 2012: Ukraine’s Oldest A Cappella Band Celebrates 20 Years on Stage
They are charismatic, elegant and true and, if you hear them singing, you will remember the experience forever. Pikkardiyska Tercia, an inimitable band from Lviv, sounds like a small orchestra but in fact its music is performed by six men a cappella. Highly professional and innovative, they have been conquering hearts of thousands of fans...
KYIV POST — September 28, 2012: Bonding With Nature in Kyiv
Two exhibitions in Ukraine’s capital are becoming increasingly popular with tourists and locals alike. Featuring rare reptiles and mammals from across the world, the “Discover Your Ekzoworld” petting zoo was launched last spring at Dreamtown, a major shopping center on the north side of the city...
KYIV POST — September 18, 2012: Ukraine Among Countries With Strongest Momentum in Retailer Activity
Ukraine is 13th of 20 countries with the strongest momentum in terms of consumer, retailer, developer and investor activity, reads a press release of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), referring to its Retail Real Estate Momentum Index. The report says that China took the top spot in the index, while India was second and Indonesia third. Russia is ninth...
KYIV POST — September 13, 2012: Ukraine’s Paralympians Return Home as Heroes
Relatives shower members of the Ukrainian Paralympics team in Boryspil airport with kisses and flowers late on Sept. 11. Ukraine’s disabled sportsmen reached their best result ever, winning 84 medals, including 32 gold - one third more than in the previous summer Olympics in Beijing. Ukraine came in fourth in the team ranking, behind China, Russia and Great Britain...
KYIV POST — September 13, 2012: Condoleezza Rice to Attend 9th Yalta Annual Meeting
The 66th U. S. Secretary of State (2005-2009), Condoleezza Rice, will take part in the ninth Yalta Annual Meeting entitled "Ukraine and the World: Overcoming Tomorrow’s Challenges Together", which was organized by the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation...
KYIV POST — August 8, 2012: ‘Made in Ukraine’ Animated TV Political Satire Could Hit Airwaves
As early as the 2013 TV season, American audiences could be laughing in their living rooms to an animated political comedy series created by a Ukrainian public relations company. With the working title “Desperate White House,” audiences will get a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the White House through eight staff members with flawed, politically incorrect character traits...
KYIV POST — April 13, 2012: Leading Ukrainian Law Firms Offer Tips About M&A Transactions
In Kyiv Post interviews, 10 of Ukraine’s top law firms answered the below questions. Do you see the Ukrainian M&A market recovering to pre-crisis levels? If so, when and what sectors will be most attractive? If European banks were big buyers of Ukrainian assets before the crisis, who are the main buyers on the market today, who will be buying in coming years and what countries are they from?..
KYIV POST — March 16, 2012: Unpretentious Star Gaitana Leads the Way
If there is anything shocking about Gaitana, it’s her normality. She has none of the pretense of a pop star. She likes cooking. She talks easily about God and she dreams of having a lot of children. Yet this warm and calm person was dragged into a scandal recently after winning the competition to represent Ukraine in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan in May...
KYIV POST — March 2, 2012: Warsaw Stock Exchange Aims to Boost Burgeoning Business With Ukraine
The number of Ukrainian listings on the Warsaw Stock Exchange may soon be boosted by a recent agreement with local business representatives. With 11 Ukrainian companies listed on the Polish trading platform, enough to warrant a special WIG-Ukraine index, Warsaw is already a major destination for Ukrainian companies seeking to take their business to the next level…
KYIV POST — February 17, 2012: Euro 2012 to Bring High-End Corporate Culture to Ukraine
Tips for succeeding in Ukraine: Don’t compromise on standards of quality that you would expect in Western European countries. You need to search and challenge partners and suppliers a bit more because, in the end, there are a lot talented people willing to deliver to the same standards that you would get anywhere else in the world...
KYIV POST — February 3, 2012: Eastern European Cuisine: No Longer Just for Peasants
TORONTO – Pyrohy, those mouth-watering dumplings stuffed with potato, cabbage and mushrooms, are gradually making the transition from peasant staple to high cuisine. From hip cafes to chic restaurants, Eastern European food is coming into its own...
KYIV POST — February 3, 2012: OECD Cites Four Sectors as Tops in Investment Potential
Nearly three years in the making, Ukraine’s strategic sector competitiveness report has finally been unveiled by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. While taking note of the numerous local troubles, the report identified four highly competitive sectors on which investment in Ukraine should focus...
KYIV POST — January 20, 2012: Wildlife Experience in Polissya Woods
Selezivka, Zhytomyr region – Several moose calmly grazed beside the road. To our surprise, they weren’t startled by us getting out of the car to take a closer look. We were visiting the Polissya nature reserve, a giant area of marshes and forests, some 250 kilometers northwest of Kyiv on the border with Belarus. The road we took led to the village the residents of which...
KYIV POST — January 13, 2012: Trying to Capture Ukrainian Character Through Creation of an All-Purpose Font
Font is probably the last thing you would think of when pondering the image of the country. After all, it’s all around; you hardly notice it – like the air that you breathe. Yet Mykhaylo Ilko, head of Stairsfor design studio and member of the national Mystetsky Arsenal Charity Fund Council, decided that Ukraine needs a modern font that would contribute to its business identity, and would give a sort of a “facelift” to Ukraine’s corporate style...
KYIV POST — January 13, 2012: OPIC Starts to Pour Money Into Ukraine Again
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. governmental finance institution that supports American businesses abroad, provided $50 million to the SigmaBleyzer Investment Fund for Southeastern Europe, a private equity fund...
KYIV POST — December 23, 2011: Nation Has Yet to Convince Investors They Are Welcome
Legend has it that when Catherine the Great traveled to Crimea her minister Grigory Potemkin built fake villages and lit camp fires along the way, reassuring the monarch that her conquests were indeed valuable and not just barren wastelands. Such a strategy was honed under communism and has since been used repeatedly by many former-Soviet states, who promise investors much but deliver little...
KYIV POST — December 21, 2011: Ukraine-Romania: Relations Reloaded?
Speaking at the international conference in Kyiv on 2 December, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Ukraine Cornel Ionescu has confirmed the position of official Bucharest on the strengthening of bilateral relations with Ukraine. Moreover, he has expressed readiness of Romania to act as an advocate of Ukraine in European structures. “Romania, together with Poland, could become...
KYIV POST — December 9, 2011: Platini Says Ukraine Ready for Euro 2012
When European soccer chief Michel Platini announced four years ago that Ukraine and Poland would host the European soccer championship in 2012, many were surprised that the prize hadn’t gone to the more glamorous Italian bid. The decision by European football’s top governing body to award Ukraine and Poland the rights to stage next year’s Euro 2012 tournament was seen as a risky leap of faith, given the amount of work on stadiums, hotels and transport links that needed to be done...
KYIV POST — December 9, 2011: Having a Tasty Piece of Kyiv
While Chicken Kiev may be the food most frequently associated with Ukraine’s capital abroad, this is certainly not a local association. Ukrainians will tell you that for the past 50 years the food you bring back home from the capital is the Kyiv cake. Crunchy and nutty meringue combined with plenty of buttery cream for contrast, its taste provides a comforting memory from childhood for many Kyivans, when the delicacy was the finale of a festive family dinner that all children craved...
KYIV POST — December 2, 2011: Oksana Zabuzhko: ‘Hard to Be Woman’
Her kitchen is stuffed with old polka dots pans and decorative plates hang on the wall. She does not know where tea is kept in her own kitchen and often uses this part of the flat to store her luggage after her latest trip. If the kitchen is said to be the most important place for a Ukrainian woman, the same cannot be said about Oksana Zabuzhko, the most famous female writer in Ukraine...
KYIV POST — December 2, 2011: Euro 2012 Offers Pure Treat for Football Fans
Forget the World Cup for now. Many football purists get their four-yearly international kicks from the European Championship. Ahead of Friday’s draw in Kiev, Euro 2012 promises plenty of memorable matchups, as the strongest possible lineup according to the UEFA rankings have qualified to play in Poland and Ukraine. Even before the draw...
KYIV POST — November 28, 2011: High Speed Trains to Connect Ukrainian Euro 2012 Host Cities
Train times between Kyiv and three major Ukrainian cities will be dramatically reduced next year when new high-speed trains are introduced ahead of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Six of 10 trains ordered from South Korean manufacturer Hyundai will be delivered ahead of...
KYIV POST — November 25, 2011: Donors Help Ukraine Cut High Infant Mortality Rate
Despite increased government health spending since 2000, the World Health Organization says the nation’s main health indicators have improved little except for maternal and infant mortality. Although the early neonatal death rate and maternal mortality have both halved since independence, according to official statistics, the WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) consider the maternal mortality rate to be underestimated...
KYIV POST — November 18, 2011: Government Road Show Highlights Nation’s Investment Opportunities
But many are wary because of numerous obstacles. Vladyslav Kaskiv has probably the toughest job in the Ukrainian government. He is charged with trying to persuade foreign investors to put their money into a country with a reputation as lawless, corrupt and bureaucratic...

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