Ukraine’s recent application to join the NATO Membership Action Plan has provoked a new round of threats and indignation from the Kremlin. It would be ironic but certainly not unprecedented if Ukraine’s largely uninterested population were driven into the NATO camp by the arrogant posturing of Moscow and the rhetoric of Ukraine’s Russophile minority More

President Yushchenko used his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week to urge international players to invest in Ukrainian energy sector in what was the latest attempt to arrange alternatives to Russia’s regional energy stranglehold More

The Tymoshenko government has begun the New Year with a flurry of activity, but as attention focuses on the ruling Orange coalition, one question is being increasingly asked around Kyiv - where is Yanukovych? His current low profile has fuelled rumours of a rift within the Party of Regions and led to speculation that we could be about to witness a major political shift in the industrial heartlands of the east More

In the past two years the Ukrainian warehouse storage market has seen huge growth in the number of high-quality facilities on offer, but the sector is still far from capacity. The major stumbling block to further exponential growth now appears to be the absence of land reform legislation needed to free up strategically located land plots Subscribe

The December enlargement of the Schengen zone to include the bulk of the European Union’s new former Eastern Bloc member states has created the largest single, unified border on the continent’s history and made Ukraine the EU’s major border partner. Fears are rising that the appeal of visa-free travel across Europe will lead to a rise in people-trafficking and illegal immigration via Ukraine’s infamously porous frontiers Subscribe

The fragility of democracy has been on brutal display in recent weeks. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan and the violent riots and contested election in Kenya have tempered hopes for progress in these two countries and both scenarios highlight the threats posed to the global current democracy-building process and appear to support the need for civilised handovers of power in transition countries like Ukraine Subscribe

Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko literally hit the headlines last week after news leaked out that he had allegedly punched Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy at an official meeting. This latest scuffle between members of the elite has led to renewed demands that state officials behave in a manner more befitting their status Subscribe

Ukraine’s location as the gateway to Eurasia offers the country a huge strategic advantage as a transit route, but with a road network that is rated among the very worst in the world this opportunity is not being seized Subscribe

Ukraine’s transit potential is often undermined by its poor infrastructure and suffocating corruption, but a new air freight project just south of Kyiv may help sidestep these two barriers and earn the country the regional transit leadership its geographical location deserves Subscribe

The development of a Kyiv region warehousing market in 2007 was marked by both a quantity and quality increases as the country’s booming economy and strategic location combine to drive the sector forward Subscribe

January 22 saw record losses on Ukraine’s stock market as the world’s financial capitals were hit by a major crash triggered by problems with mortgage loans in the United States, but analysts remain confident that the bullish Ukrainian market can somehow ride out the storm More

World markets have taken a tumble in the last week as the repercussions of the sub-prime crisis played havoc with international financial markets, but could Ukraine benefit from the crash? Subscribe

The Ukrainian government’s privatisation package will prove crucial in financing the reforms of the new Orange coalition. Of the 28 state-run companies slated for sale this year, the most notable are fixed-line telecoms monopoly Ukrtelecom, ammonia fertiliser producer Odessa Portside Plant, and six regional energy distribution companies Subscribe