The World Economic Forum ranks the spread of misinformation and fake news, as among the world’s top global risks. In line with other reports, the forum finds that fake news […]
Month: November 2019
Students want lecturer at the University of Alberta fired after calling Holodomor a ‘myth’
A controversial post shared on the Facebook page of an assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta Dougal MacDonald, claiming the Holodomor genocide is a “myth,” has sparked calls for […]
Moody’s has improved the rating outlook for seven Ukrainian banks
Moody’s Investors Service has improved the rating outlook, from ‘stable’ to ‘positive’ for seven Ukrainian banks: PrivatBank, Oschadbank, Ukreximbank, Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Prominvestbank, Sberbank, and Pivdenny Bank. Moody’s also confirmed […]
Supporting Ukraine is cheapest strategy to stymie accelerating Russian aggression
As one of America’s most reliable allies in our war on terror and in our peacekeeping missions for the last 27 years, Ukraine is far more than 45,000 pairs of […]
NBU board reports attack by the former PrivatBank owner Kolomoisky
The board of the National Bank of Ukraine [NBU] has stated that an attack on the NBU, which has been going on for several weeks, is being carried out by […]
Lviv airport expects to see passenger traffic increase by 42%
Ukraine’s fastest-growing major airport, Lviv expects to see passenger traffic increase this year by 42% y-o-y, to 2.2 million people, Tatyana Romanovska, the airport director, said on Friday, ubn.news reports. […]
Kharkiv’s IT industry expanded by one quarter in 2019
Kharkiv’s IT industry has expanded by almost one quarter this year, to 31,000 specialists, according to the report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and IRS-Group. Their survey identified almost 500 companies. The average […]
About 500,000 Russian citizens were relocated to occupied Crimea
Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, says about 500,000 Russian citizens have been resettled to the territory of Crimea over […]
PrivatBank reported $1,7 billion in profits in the first 10 months of this year
PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, recorded the hryvnia equivalent of $1.7 billion in profit in the first 10 months of this year, double the level during the same period last year. After […]
Kolomoisky claims that he will get PrivatBank back soon
Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky expects that PrivatBank CB JSC will be returned to him in the near future. “The International Monetary Fund knows that PrivatBank will be returned (to me) in […]
Ukraine commemorates Holodomor victims
On Saturday, November 23, Ukraine commemorates National Holodomor Memorial Day. The Holodomor Memorial Day is marked annually on the fourth Saturday of November under the presidential decrees of 1998 and […]
U.S. Investigating Universities Over Russian Donations
U.S. officials have asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to turn over documents regarding the university’s contacts with foreign governments and donations from foreign sources, including those coming from […]
How the Soviet Regime Oppressed the Ukrainian Language
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Ukraine’s seaports showed 20.2% year-on-year increase in cargo volumes
The seaports of southern Ukraine handled 129.8 million tons of cargo during the first ten months of 2019, representing a 20.2% year-on-year increase according to the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority. […]
