The modernization process in Ukraine will take place within three areas, stated the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Borys Kolesnikov. The first direction presupposes business infrastructure development in Eastern Ukraine including modernization of airports and construction of high capacity runways as well as construction of exhibition centres and conference centres up to the world standard.

The second direction will comprise the development of agriculture in Central Ukraine. The government is determined to increase the volumes of corn growing virtually twofold, up to 100 million tons per year, by means of offering economic incentives in the agricultural sector.

Finally, the third direction will cover the tourist infrastructure development in Western Ukraine and Crimea.

 Targeted modernization projects will also contribute to radical changes in the vital for the country areas, said Vladyslav Kaskiv, the Head of the Working Group for National Projects of the Committee on Economic Reforms. Their range is rather broad: from the creation of a transmission system for liquefied gas up to providing the new generation of Ukrainian schoolchildren with Internet access. Contrary to the Russian approach, the Ukrainian projects will be implemented not at the expense of the state funds but according to business models at the expense of the private investors.

 YES, Yalta, October 2nd, 2010.