Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

The Economist: The Ukrainian economy is not terrible everywhere

"But western Ukraine is clearly doing decently. In the first three quarters of 2015 Lviv, a city in the west from where your correspondent is writing this, had one of the biggest jumps in employment of any province in Ukraine. And construction is doing rather well (luxury flats are popping up across the city and hipster bars are opening).

Of course, such a contrast is not terribly surprising. Lviv is well over 1,000km away from Donetsk; and its economy, with a heavy concentration of services like IT, is a world away from the coal-mining and steel of the east. Basically they are entirely different economies, which talk of "Ukraine" ignores".



Фигня ваша Галичина, говорили они. Украинцы везде одинаковы, говорили они.