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On November 22, 2006, the Rivne City Rada has adopted the city’s Economic Development Strategic Plan in a unanimous vote of 53 Rada members present at the session, the head of a local NGO told LED Monitor. More...

Control Risks Group and Transparency International published findings of their research on comparative international risks for business andperceived corruption level, rating Ukraine as a country with medium political and security risks, and just below the median on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). More...

On Friday, Nov. 3, 2006, a group of VIPs including President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and the president of the Russia-based oil giant Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, gathered in Kalush to give an official kick-off to the construction of a chlorine and caustic soda plant, which has been underway in this Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast city since summer 2006. More...

Well-promoted right-to-lease auctions in Kamyanets-Podilsky attract better bidders and speed up inflow of money. More...

The international conference on “Efficient Use of Land Investment Potential for Economic Development in Ukrainian Cities” was held in Kyiv on Oct. 26, 2006, initiated and organized by the USAID Local Economic Development project. More...

In the wake of his recent visit to Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, the Lviv Oblast Rada chairman, Myroslav Senyk, came to a conclusion that the city government must pay more attention to encouragement of small and medium business, the Lviv.proUA.com portal reported on Oct. 19, 2006. More...

BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 – Ukraine entered the top-three countries in Southeastern Europe and the CIS in terms of inflows of foreign direct investment in 2005, which amounted to $7.8 billion, according to an annual United Nations world investment report. More...

A new high-tech line for chocolates production, launched at the Dnipropetrovsk Confectionary by AVK in early October 2006, allowed for retaining jobs and upgrading skills of personnel at this AVK facility, the company told LED Monitor on Monday. More...