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Viktor Yanukovych, as incumbent President, will pay his first visit to Brussels. The visit is reportedly planned for 1 March. European leaders have confirmed their consent to meet the new head of Ukraine. Yanukovych’s visit to the Russian Federation will take place later, maybe after the appointment of a new prime minister of Ukraine.
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A Russian government-owned company United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has included a jointly engineered Ukrainian/Russian aircraft Antonov An-140 to its product line. This broadens the aircraft prospects on the Russian market.
At the end of last week, Alexey Fedorov, UAC President, announced decision to include the regional passenger aircraft An-140 to the product line of the [...]

The appeal against results of the presidential elections was finalized on 20 February. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko decided to lower her flag and withdraw the claim after a failure to have the appeal allowed at the Supreme Administrative Court. She attributed her decision to “a formal approach of court” to legal proceedings. The chamber satisfied [...]

This model will allow disestablishing LAZ’s monopoly in supplying recent samples of this technology. However, experts believe that more probably the innovation will be sold to the Eastern European countries.
Bogdan, a Ukrainian corporation, has developed a new trolleybus model, providing the company’s access to a new niche at this technology market. In contrast to 10, [...]

The Ukrainian market of rolled metal products began recovering. An important contract was made last week: Metinvest-Ukraine is to increase its products supply to Azovmash, Ukraine’s largest machine-building plant, seven times. Sale growth is due to metal makers’ demand for machine-building products. Experts note that complexes, capable of competing with Russian metal makers, will be [...]

Ferroalloys plants operated by Privat Group demand to introduce anti-dumping levies for importing of ferroalloys to Ukraine. Provided that happen, Ihor Kolomiysky’s plants would be monopolists.
Ukraine has commenced an anti-dumping investigation concerning the ferroalloys import to this country.
That resolution was made by the Interdepartmental Commission for International Trade on the basis of a [...]

On 15 February, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) received the first suit with a requirement to invalidate the protocol of the Central Election Commission on the results of the presidential election. The action was filed by V. Barvinenko, Member of Parliament (BYuT). Mrs. Tymoshenko is to put in a claim on 16 February. All 55 [...]

As of January, commercial sea ports of Ukraine reported the growth of the volume of transshipments, which was for the first time since 2008. The mean growth in the industry was 5.2%.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Port (Odessa Oblast) had the best dynamics of transshipment growth in one year. In January, 58.4 thousand t of cargo was transshipped, [...]

Ihor Kolomiysky withdrew his shareholding in ore mining company Ferrexpo controlled by Ukrainian businessman Kostiantyn Zhevaho. At the end of last week, the co-owner of Privat Group sold the rest of his 2.9 pct package of shares at $53.55 mln.
Since Ferrexpo’s launching IPO on London Exchange in 2007, Mr. Kolomiysky managed to purchase around 6.8% of [...]

On 14 February, the Central Election Commission declared official results of the presidential elections. Viktor Yanukovych, leader of the Party of Regions, is the winner with a 3.48% margin over his rival.
The Central Election Commission reported that 12.48 million citizens of Ukraine (48.95% voters) cast their votes for Yanukovych in the second round of [...]