[…] Natalie Jaresko, the country’s new finance minister who was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, says she feels just as much at home here as she takes on a daunting task: overhauling a Soviet-era economy at a time when public finances are being drained by war.
Amid all this, the government is living a hand-to-mouth existence — it must pay Russia up front for gas supplies at a time when it is quickly running out of money.
[…] that eye-catching headline figure includes up to $15 billion of expected debt renegotiation with private investors by the government in Kiev, a …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
