Scuffles broke out in the Ukrainian parliament last week as PMs fought over the election of the new session’s parliamentary speaker. Attempts to block the vote ultimately failed, and the election of leading Orange coalition figure Arseniy Yatsenyuk as speaker makes the return of Yulia Tymoshenko to the prime minister’s office appear increasingly likely More

The chances of a renewed Orange coalition succeeding now appear to rest almost entirely on the ability of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko to co-operate. Alternatively, any deterioration in their smouldering love/hate relationship could spell the end for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic ambitions More

As one of the world’s top oil and gas companies, Shell is now looking to Ukraine as a new market to which it can offer a wide range of its products and services. However, it was the country’s potential as producer of natural gas and condensate that made the company take its first major step into Ukraine More

The rise of energy politics could hardly have come at a worse time for Ukraine, with regular deadly explosions at the country’s outdated coal mines coupled a continuing dependence on Russian energy supplies posing a direct threat to Ukraine’s economic growth and democratic development Subscribe

As the global scramble to secure access to energy supplies intensifies, it is hard not to see that he time has come for Ukraine’s political elites to put partisan sentiment to one side and focus on the need to reform the domestic energy sector. To assure its future as an emerging economy, the country will have to attract and retain the international know-how and investment that the sector so desperately needs Subscribe

Can the new government cope with the scale of the energy issues it will likely face in the coming year? With the Soviet-era domestic heating system in need of a total overhaul and Russian gas prices set to rise by around 30%, there is reason to believe that the fate of the renewed Orange coalition will rest on its handling of the energy issue Subscribe

Nuclear energy is increasingly being seen as a solution to the energy dependency trap which many countries now face. Dr. Olga Kosharna argues that while Ukraine is better placed than most to rely on nuclear fuel, political and bureaucratic obstacles remain Subscribe

Alternative and renewable energy options are the ideal solution to Ukraine’s energy blues, but the government needs to offer investors incentives before the sector can perform to its full potential Subscribe

As international investors rush to enter the booming Ukrainian market, a British initiative is promoting another kind of investment which can bring dividends simply by focusing on a company’s most valuable assets: Its staff Subscribe

Ukraine’s real estate market has been the most bullish in the region for the past few years, with construction of new buildings never keeping pace with demand for quality housing from the emerging middle classes. As the banking sector matures, more and more Ukrainians are opting for mortgages to finance their climb up the social ladder, but the market for this type of finance still has plenty of room for growth Subscribe

Ukraine’s status-crazy business community have predictably gone wild for the hottest new handset to hit the global mobile phone market. The fact that Apple’s “revolutionary” iPhone is not yet officially available on the Ukrainian market has not stopped the stylish device appearing all over the country More