Ukraine: Long-awaited reprivatization gets under way

After months of debate about the number of companies to be reprivatized, progress is made

Ukraine’s largest steel maker, Krivorozhstal, is to be resold in October, in the first sign that government wrangling that has lasted for months is beginning to be resolved. The disputes have concerned the extent to which some of the most controversial company privatizations made under the previous administration should be reversed, with the companies in question being put up for sale again. Since president Viktor Yushchenko  was swept to power in last December’s Orange Revolution, the president and his prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, have been embroiled in public arguments about the number of companies to be reprivatized.

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