Ukraine, Donetsk, Russia, FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Crimea, Viktor Yanukovych
Ukraine’s Richest Billionaire On Upending Putin’s Expectations, One Year Into Russia’s War
Rinat Akhmetov’s steel plants and electricity substations have been damaged by Russian attacks–and hundreds of his employees have been killed. But he’s determined to stay in Ukraine and support his country.
Ukraine’s Richest Billionaire On Upending Putin’s Expectations, One Year Into Russia’s War
Rinat Akhmetov’s steel plants and electricity substations have been damaged by Russian attacks–and hundreds of his employees have been killed. But he’s determined to stay in Ukraine and ...
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'We WILL rebuild Mariupol': Ukraine’s richest man pledges to rebuild the country and besieged city where he owns steelworks at the centre of heavy fighting with Russian forces
Rinat Akhmetov has seen his business empire shattered by eight years of fighting in Ukraine's east but remains defiant, sure that what he calls 'our brave soldiers' will defend Ukraine.
War has tamed Ukraine’s oligarchs, creating space for democratic change
The war has cost Ukraine's oligarchs and diminished their political and economic power with possibly major consequences for Ukraine's postwar political future.
Ukraine's richest man vows to rebuild besieged Mariupol
Ukraine's richest man has pledged to help rebuild the besieged city of Mariupol, a place close to his heart where he owns two vast steelworks that he says will once again compete globally.
Ukraine’s Billionaires Have Lost $10 Billion Since Russia’s Invasion
The seven Ukrainians on the 2022 World’s Billionaires List are $7 billion poorer than they were in 2021, with Revolut’s Vlad Yatsenko replacing chocolate mogul-turned-former president Petro ...
Rinat Akhmetov trades media licenses for clean slate
Ukraine’s richest man doesn’t want to be called an oligarch anymore. For that, he’s ready to publicly distance himself from politics and relinquish his sway over the domestic media market. ...
Will the war with Russia rein in Ukraine’s oligarchs?
The conflict may harm rich figures in financial terms and hand Zelenskyy victory in his battle against their influence.
Russia's war in Ukraine
Russia is suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Rinat Akhmetov owns the Azovstal steelworks and The Illich Steel and Iron Works, which suffered heavy damage from Russian bombing and shelling
Rinat Akhmetov owns the Azovstal steelworks and The Illich Steel and Iron Works, which suffered heavy damage from Russian bombing; he said he will ‘demand proper compensation for all losses ...
March 31 Ukrainian presidential election is focus of London discussion
LONDON – The Ukrainian presidential election was explained to Britons by two experts from Kyiv, journalist Volodymyr Yermolenko and think tank head Victor Andrusiv, during an event at ...
Ukrainian Oligarch Seeks to Distance Himself From Russia by Mulling Sale of Superyacht
As his steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine, was being destroyed by Russian bombs, becoming the site of a last stand by the city’s defenders, billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, ...
Whither The Oligarchs? Amid Russia Crisis, Fears For Ukraine's Struggle To Uproot Corruption
Before Ukraine’s government was struggling with a major new threat from Russia, it was struggling with its efforts to uproot corruption and check the powerful influence of the country’s ...
Who decided on the boundaries of the ‘Russian World?’ A brief history of Donbas separatism
Story by Konstantin Skorkin. English-language version by Emily Laskin.
Explosions Reported in Kyiv and Lviv; Russia Says It Has Struck a Military Plant in the Capital
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russian sanctions still aren’t enough for its “military machine to be left without means of subsistence.”
Ukraine Trade Arteries Show Putin’s Options Short of All Out War
By Marc Champion (Bloomberg) — From her office across from the wind-lashed docks and idle cranes of Berdyansk Commercial Sea Port in southeastern Ukraine, new director Olga Saminina is ...
Russia’s Bombs Force Ukraine Into War Economy: ‘Plants That Made Sweaters Are Making Weapons’
Support from Ukrainian businesses and civilian institutions is helping the war effort and augmenting assistance from the West.
Why Ukraine's richest man is winding down his massive media business
Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov announced he would be winding down his media business. Why is Akhmetov giving up his media empire and what’s next for his media assets?
A brief history of corruption in Ukraine: the Kravchuk era
Many of the larger-than-life power brokers in Ukraine got their starts in the early ‘90s by successfully navigating the primordial soup of ill-designed, poorly enforced regulation, writes ...