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Kostyantyn Zhevago
Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago (, ; born 7 January 1974) is a Ukrainian businessman, philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) continuously for 21 years from 1998 until 2019. Executive Director of Ferrexpo in 2008-2019. Early life and career He was born in the family of a mining engineer in the village of Iultin, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast, in the former Soviet Union, and spent his childhood in the city of Dniprorudne, Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine. He has been a citizen of Ukraine since 1991. Kostyantyn Zhevago graduated from school with honors. In 1991, Zhevago entered the Kyiv National Economic University, specialising in accounting and analysis of foreign economic activity. In 1996, he graduated with a degree in International Economic Relations and obtained a master's degree in Economics with a specialization in International Economics. In 2003, Kostyantyn Zhevago earned a PhD in Economics with a thesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Deputy Of Ukraine
A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna Rada had been called the Supreme Council of People's Deputies of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Statutes concerning elections and the rights and duties of deputies are outlined in Articles 76 - 81 of the Constitution of Ukraine. Ukraine's parliament has 450 seats. Deputies may be appointed to various parliamentary positions such as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, chairperson (speaker) of the Verkhovna Rada, a head of a committee or a parliamentary faction, etc. Upon taking office, each deputy receives a deputy mandate. People's deputies elected to the Verkhovna Rada as independent candidates may choose to join factions. Since 2016, anti-corruption in Ukraine, corruption regulations mandate senior public officials (including depu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrexpo
Ferrexpo plc is a Switzerland, Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company which is the third largest exporter of iron ore pellets in the world. Ferrexpo's operating base is in central Ukraine, where it operates three iron-ore mines and an Iron ore pellets, iron ore pellet production facility. The company's trading office is located in London where it is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It is also a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index. History The business was founded by the Soviet Union, Soviet government in 1960 as the ":uk:Полтавський гірничо-збагачувальний комбінат, Poltava Mining and Extraction Combinat" to exploit iron ore reserves in Horishni Plavni (formerly Komsomolsk), Ukraine. In 1977 it started selling its product in the form of Pelletizing, iron ore pellets. In June 2007, Ferrexpo plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange, producing 8.6 million tonnes of iron ore pellets in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliamentary Assembly Of The Council Of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up of 306 members drawn from the national parliaments of the Council of Europe's member states, and meets four times a year for week-long plenary sessions in Strasbourg. It is one of the two statutory bodies of the Council of Europe, along with the Committee of Ministers, the executive body representing governments, with which it holds an ongoing dialogue. However, it is the Assembly which is usually regarded as the "motor" of the organisation, holding governments to account on human rights issues, pressing states to maintain democratic standards, proposing fresh ideas and generating the momentum for reform. The Assembly held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, embodying at that time the hopes of many Europeans who, in the afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltava Region
Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was part of the southern regions of the Cossack Hetmanate. Population: Three other important cities in the oblast are Horishni Plavni, Kremenchuk, and Lubny. History The Poltava Oblast was established on 22 September 1937 by a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. It was based mostly on rayons (districts) that were part of Kharkiv Oblast, with some from Kyiv Oblast. The region approximately corresponds to the earlier Poltava Governorate (1802–1925). During the Nazi Germany occupation in 1941–43, most of the region belonged to Kiew Generalbezirke (general district), while the rest was part of the German military rear area. After the withdrawal of German forces, the region was reinstated almost to the same borders. In the 1950s it lost some of its territories t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vorskla Poltava
FC Vorskla Poltava ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava. The team set to compete in Ukrainian First League, the second tier of Football in Ukraine, Ukrainian football after relegation from Ukrainian Premier League in 2024–25. History Kolos Poltava The club draws its history from 1955 when on the initiative of the first secretary of the regional party cell Mikhail Stakhursky in the city of Poltava was established a football club Kolhospnyk within the republican trade union sports society ''Kolos (sports society), Kolhospnyk''. The same year it entered the 1955 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR, Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR where already played one of the older clubs from Poltava, FC Lokomotyv Poltava, Lokomotyv Poltava. Beside Kolhospnyk and Lokomotyv, at republican level Poltava was represented with some other sports societies before 1950s. Rumors about appearance of the new club in Poltava based at the VSS "Kolhospnyk" starte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KrAZ
KrAZ (, ''Kremenchutskyi Avtomobilnyi Zavod'', Kremenchuk Automobile Plant, АвтоКрА́З or AvtoKrAZ) is a factory in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, that produces trucks and other special-purpose vehicles, particularly heavy-duty off-road models. The factory was incorporated as a holding company combining several other factories nationwide and becoming the industrial wing of the finance-industrial group Finance and Credit, which also held the Finance and Credit (bank), Finance and Credit bank. History Soviet era KrAZ was founded on 31 August 1945 when the People's Commissariat for Transportation Routes issued a warrant to build a mechanical bridge plant in Kremenchuk. The first brick was laid in the plant foundation in 1946 and during the next eight years it produced about 600 bridges with the total length of about 27 km for use on the Dnieper River, Dnieper, Moscow River, Moscow, Dniester, Volga and Daugava River, Daugava rivers etc. In 1956 the plant has manufactured combine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FTSE4Good Index
The FTSE4Good Index Series is a series of ethical investment stock market indices launched in 2001 by the FTSE Group which reports on the performance of companies which demonstrate "strong Environmental, Social and Governance practices". A number of stock market indices are available, for example covering UK shares, US shares, European markets and Japan, with inclusion based on a range of corporate social responsibility criteria. Research for the indices is supported by the Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS). The index excludes companies due to their involvement in tobacco production, weapons, or coal power industry and rates companies for inclusion based environmental sustainability Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ..., relationships with stakeholders, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FTSE 250 Index
The Financial Times Stock Exchange 250 Index, also called the FTSE 250 Index, FTSE 250, or, informally, the "Footsie 250" , is a stock market index that consists of the 101st to the 350th mid-cap blue chip companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Description The index consists of 11 ICB sectors, three of which have a market cap exceeding £25 billion as at 31 December 2024. These are Financials, Industrials, Consumer Discretionary and together account for approximately 75% of the index's market cap. At the same date there was 9 companies with a market cap exceeding £3 billion: Polar Capital, IG, Burberry, B&M, Investec, Direct Line, Tritax Big Box REIT, Britvic, and RS Group equating to approximately 10% of the market cap. Each calendar quarter, the FTSE 250's constituents are reviewed and some companies will either exit or enter the index, resulting in irregular trading volume and price changes as market participants rebalance their portfolios. Relate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange based in London, England. the total market value of all companies trading on the LSE stood at US$3.42 trillion. Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul's Cathedral. Since 2007, it has been part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG, which the exchange also lists (ticker symbol LSEG)). Despite a post-Brexit exodus of stock listings from the LSE, it was the most valued stock exchange in Europe as of 2023. According to the 2020 Office for National Statistics report, approximately 12% of UK-resident individuals reported having investments in stocks and shares. According to a 2020 Financial Conduct Authority report, approximately 15% of British adults reported having investments in stocks and shares. History Coffee House The Royal Exchange, London, Royal Exchange had been founded by the English financier Thomas Gresham and Sir Richard Clough on the model of the The Belgian bourse of Antwerp, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrnafta
Public JSC Ukrnafta () is a Ukrainian oil and natural gas extracting company, the largest producer of oil and gas in the country. Ukrnafta is also an operator of a gas filling station network in Ukraine nationwide. In 2006, the company conducted some 91% of oil, 27% of natural-gas condensate and 17% of gas extraction in the country. As of 2020, the company produced around 1.5 million tonnes of oil, 1.13 billion m3 of natural gas and 117 thousands tonnes of LPG. Background The company was established in 1994 through privatization of the "Ukrnafta producing association" state enterprise that existed since 1945. Its initial predecessor was Ukrnaftcombinat. Ukrnafta is a Ukrainian portmanteau word that is a combination of the words for "Ukrainian" and "oil". Just over 50% plus one share of the company is owned by the state company Naftogaz Ukrainy, 42% of the company belongs to the Privat Group based in Dnipro. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
