KIEV: Foreign investors are waiting impatiently for a new Ukrainian government to kick-start privatisation. They are far from sure it will. Parliament is expected to vote on a Cabinet line-up this week following prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk’s resignation on Sunday after months of political infighting in a country already destabilised by pro-Russian separatism. Lawmakers said technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko was likely to be dropped; Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicious, a key driver for privatisation, had already resigned over what he said was meddling by vested interests. The pro-western authorities who came to power in 2014 after a Moscow-backed president fled …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
