To realize most of the Ukrainian innovations potential, it is enough to remove the existing barriers for business.

Who should finance the development of local know-how?

Ukrainian businessmen maintain that 80% of innovation project budget is paid as kickback to public servants

Ukrainian regions are widely engaged in developing their business strategies. Yet, the investors are still unaware of such activity of the local governments. There are five reasons for this.

Investors are attracted both by industrial regions of Ukraine (Donetsk, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk Oblasts) and the regions which lack major industries (Lvov and Zakarpatye Oblasts). Availability of raw materials tends to fall by the wayside while readiness of the region to provide favorable business environment for investors is brought to the forefront

I don't know actually how they live in Columbia (no word about shadow incomes of drug traffickers). Yet, I have no grounds not to trust the World Economic Forum, which has been studying the competitiveness of Ukraine and its regions with the Foundation for Effective Governance for the third year.

A reporter of the Vesti Newspaper discussed in English with the former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell the problem of being a woman in the world of politics, which is dominated by men, corruption as the key challenge of Ukraine, Ukrainian hospitality, Rinat Akhmetov and cottage cheese pancakes

The Chairman of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast State Administration Aleksandr Vilkul intrigued everybody well in advance with a meeting of the Region’s Council. He had promised new best-practice approaches to a concept of a development strategy for our region with big capabilities

The face of Zeinab Badawi, British broadcaster and program anchor, is familiar to television viewers of BBC World News and BBC4 from many countries of the world. In November 2009, London-based Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) named her “international TV personality of the year”

Strategic business plan of Dnepropetrovsk Region development will be produced by the world renowned specialists