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• n  the basic unit of money in Ukraine

• Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, has lost about 35% of its value against the dollar and euro since the start of the downturn, a change that experts say is likely to boost the .
• With a number of banks already under the administration of the National Bank, worried citizens have drained over 20% of hryvnia deposits since November.
• Ukraine's Interior Minister, where the country's currency, the hryvnia, has lost about 40% of its value against the dollar, boosting Ukraine's growing tourism sector.

News & Articles

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• Ukraine Plans to Triple Tax on Beer to Boost Budget Revenue
  Ukraine plans to almost triple the excise tax on beer in a bid to boost annual budget revenue by as much as 1.7 billion hryvnia ($209 million).
  June 11, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in AFP
  The European Union has not given money to Ukraine,Putin said. "Not a single cent, not a single hryvnia."
• Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv Post
  When every kopeck is accounted for, when every hryvnia is critical to act against the world financial crisis, spending half a billion hryvnias on a reckless election is nothing other than acting against the national interest,Tymoshenko said...