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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on September 2, 2019. Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP

Ukraine would be on the verge of a small economic revolution? In any case, this is what the decision of the Kiev government, which announced the massive privatization of state-owned enterprises, often held by the state since the Soviet era, suggests.

With our special envoy to Marioupol, Stéphane Siohan

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has just signed an Act of Parliament allowing the privatization of thousands of Ukrainian companies, while for twenty years the Kiev government has refused to put on the market a myriad of companies, owned by the State since the end of the USSR.

More than 3,000 public companies will be on sale in the next two years. These are heavy industries, infrastructure, but also state property, which could bring the budget several tens of millions of euros.

The port of Odessa and the production of pure alcohol concerned

Among these assets, there are chemical factories, heavy industries, but also a major jewel: the facilities of the port of Odessa or the public monopoly of pure alcohol production, as well as old hotels and tourist establishments, scattered in the big cities of the country.

" We must get rid of all that is not of strategic interest ," said Tuesday, October 29 at an investment forum in Mariupol the Ukrainian president, who has set a goal to reach the year next, a growth of 5%, but also to wind up obsolete companies still living in the Soviet time.