The position of official representatives of Europe concerning the imprisonment of Ukrainian oppositionists has forced the leadership of Ukraine to postpone the Summit of  Central European States. The session of Ukraine-EU Cooperation Council  will pass amid sharp statements of European ministers concerning impossibility of signing and ratification of the Association Agreement. On the whole the [...]

Governmental circles of Russia discuss now the draft bill “About development of Siberia and the Far East”. At the beginning of the year a political decision was made that a special structure should work on the development of Siberia and the Far East. The main priority is the construction of infrastructural objects at the specified [...]

Information concerning possible signing of the gas agreement between Naftogaz of Ukraine and German RWE recently appeared in Ukrainian mass-media.  What’s meant is the delivery of spot gas bought in Europe to Ukraine through pipelines of Slovakia. Even in case the short-term contract between Naftogaz and RWE is signed, it won’t reduce dependence of Ukraine [...]

Results of the national will expression on March 4 are a predicted victory of the needs of Russians in the stability of the state. V.Putin has turned out to be capable of becoming the spokesman of representation of an average Russian citizen in far-off regions. The reality of the present times is that the Russian [...]

Difficult political and economic relations between Ukraine and Russia have become even more complicated with the beginning of this year due to another trade war.  This time — a cheese one.  Out of 15 Ukrainian companies which deliver cheese to Russia, import of production has been banned to three of them starting from February 7 [...]

It is clear that Russia is interested in inviolability of the gas contracts of 2009. And the longer the negotiating process with Ukraine is protracted, the greater profits “Gazprom” gets. Official representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian authorities constantly declare that the negotiating process is going on. However, Ukraine will hardly get the gas price [...]

In conditions of growth of economic risks for the world and Ukraine, the question of attraction of investments acquires a special topicality. World media and international organizations publicly point to challenges and risks linked with investment possibilities of Ukraine in 2012.  For example, according to 2011 Forbes rating Ukraine has ended up 105-th among 134 [...]

If we take into consideration the fact that the Ukraine-EU Summit has taken place on December, 19, it is a success for Ukraine.  Two months ago the conduction of the summit was being doubted.  Ukrainian officials even discussed a possibility of V.Yanukovych’s participation in the session of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Community in [...]

Nowadays, the level of competition is considerably growing in the world.  The lack of qualified personnel is now a first and foremost problem in many spheres.  We can speak about demand for both qualified employees and elite itself.  For example, in Ukraine, according to official statistics, in the first two quarters of 2011 processing industry, [...]

Tension which we observe in the Ukraine-EU relations is caused by objective economic reasons. Besides, Ukrainian authorities consider that it is possible to cooperate with Europe without changing post-Soviet standards in the internal life of the country. The EU is persistently concentrated on solving its internal problems. A number of countries negatively treat plans of [...]

New social researches of the German company “GFK” branch ordered by the “People First” Foundation prove that family, health, children and work continue to remain chief goals for Ukrainians. Ukraine continues to remain the country which preserves traditional values, morals and culture. This is also Ukrainians’ achievement. We aspire to share this all with Europe.In [...]

The first step of Ukraine on the path to an effective power balance is a restructuring of its economy.  We should start with ourselves.  The second move should be related to reduction of the Russian gas dependence in the following 3-5 years. The Soviet technological cooperation influences economy of all post-Soviet countries already for 20 [...]

Starting my first blog, I would like to mention a couple words about myself.  My name is Ivan Semenovych Matiyeshyn. I am a successful businessman. I work in the energy sphere, in particular in the area of drilling, development, arrangement and capital repair of oil and gas wells on the territory of the CIS states. [...]