EBRD invested €1.1 billion in 51 Ukraine projects last year. Of the 38 countries where the development of bank loans money, Ukraine was second only to Egypt for the volume […]
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Google Ukraine opened an R&D office in Kyiv
Google Ukraine opened an R&D office in Kyiv this month, becoming the third Google Eastern Europe office to have R&D, after Google Poland and Google Hungary. In Ukraine, Google acquired […]
The number of Ukrainians traveling internationally by airplane jumped by 30%
The number of Ukrainians traveling internationally by airplane jumped by 30% last year, to 15.1 million, reports Ukraine’s Border Guard Service. By contrast, land crossings of Ukraine’s border with its […]
China’s Commodity Exchange has acquired a 49.9% stake in PFTS
China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange has acquired a 49.9% stake in PFTS Stock Exchange, Ukraine’s second-largest exchange, after Perspective. Last year, PFTS handled $3.2 billion in trades, 38% of the volume […]
Russian billionaire is suing banks for refusing to do business with him
Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg is suing four Nordic banks for not doing business with him, Bloomberg reports. The oligarch, an associate of President Vladimir Putin, is on the U.S. sanctions […]
Ukraine’s only English-language television channel has stopped broadcasting
“Ukrainian international state broadcaster UATV will cease the production of news and satellite broadcasting, starting from January 13, 2020,” UATV said in a news release. Former CEO of the TV channel […]
Ukraine accounts for more than 50% of annual EU agri-food import growth
For the year 12-month period from November 2018 to October 2019, agri-food imports from third countries accounted for EUR 119.7 billion, ec.europa.eu reports. The most important origins for EU agri-food […]
Court orders Russia to pay damages to Ukrainian firms
The Swiss Federal Court has ordered Russia to pay $82.1 million in damages to 12 Ukrainian firms confiscated after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, swissinfo.ch reports. In two decisions published […]
Kyiv is a Capital of “Modernity”
Throughout its long history Kyiv experienced many ups and downs, from the early tenth century, when it was the capital of the Kyivan Principality, to our own times, when it […]
Prisoner swap lifts veil on Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine
The true significance of the latest prisoner exchange between Ukraine and the Russian-occupied Donbas may lie in the identities of the prisoners demanded by the Kremlin, reads a piece by […]
Russia demanded the release of a ‘Ukrainian fascist’ as part of the prisoner exchange in occupied Donbas
While Russia’s insistence on the inclusion of a crucial MH17 witness, suspected Maidan killers and convicted terrorists in the last two prisoner exchanges gained warranted attention, the inclusion of Edward Kovalenko in the […]
Russian Academic Journals Retract Hundreds Papers After Plagiarism Probe
Russian academic journals have retracted more than 850 papers after an Academy of Sciences [RAS] commission probe into questionable publication practices, the commission said this week, The Moscow Times reports. […]
Russian special services planned to kill ex-commander of Ukrainian army battalion
Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has prevented in Kharkiv an attempt to kill a former combat commander of an intelligence unit of a Ukrainian Armed Forces battalion, […]
Snapchat acquires Ukrainian startup for $166M
Snapchat has acquired Ukrainian startup AI Factory for $166 million, reports AIN.UA. AI Factory startup was founded in 2018 and operated in stealth mode by entrepreneur Viktor Shaburov, whose previous startup – […]
