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Inside this issue
• Dominance of big business has exacerbated the downturn
• The industrial heartland is still modernising
• Leading candidates posture ahead of voting - -
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Survival in face of mounting troubles
Even by Ukrainian standards, life this year has become extremely difficult for the country’s political leaders.
Global crisis leaves export economy badly exposed
Political mayhem has dominated news headlines about Ukraine in the past decade. But, despite the disruption, the country’s economy grew impressively until last year’s dramatic plunge triggered by the global economic crisis.
Debt fails to halt company growth plans
Aleksei Alchevsky, a banking and industrial tycoon who prospered in Czarist-controlled eastern regions of Ukraine died at the start of the 20th century.
Calm election looks unlikely
Ukraine is set for further twists in its endless political saga, as the country heads into a fourth significant election in six years.
Business leaders call the shots in Kiev
They have never been as rich as the Russian oligarchs, who built up multibillion-dollar business empires on petro-dollars, and now Ukraine’s richest businessmen have seen two-thirds of their net wealth wiped out by the global financial crisis.
Football and charity keep oligarch in region’s good books
The eastern regions of Ukraine, where much of the country’s export-oriented industry lies, traditionally draw in the lion’s share of Kiev’s foreign currency earnings.
