Next week will see Yulia Tymoshenko pass the hundred day mark since she was theatrically voted in as Prime Minister last December. Since returning to office the fiery reformer has thrown herself into a programme of social spending and anti-corruption measures that has jolted the country out of its political slumber and now threatens to provide new impetus to the Orange ambitions first given voice during the 2004 revolution which she helped lead More

The latest stage of the rumbling gas wars between Russia and Ukraine seems to be over, and for once Ukraine appears to have come out on top. On March 12, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko oversaw the signing of a new agreement between the Russian gas monopolist Gasprom and Ukraine’s national gas company, which kept the price for Russian gas well below market levels and paved the way for the removal of murky intermediaries which Tymoshenko has long campaigned for More

Ukraine’s WTO entry will mean more access to the domestic market for branches of international banks. But there remain numerous question marks over the fine print of the legislation that will effect them More