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Ukraine to create web portal on crimes in occupied territories
24.12.2020
Ukraine will create a web portal on crimes in the temporarily occupied territories.Eyewitness testimony, archival data, media reports, decisions and resolutions of international organizations, photo and video material will be published on the website, according to the press service of the President’s Office.The key requirement for the entire project is reliability, objectivity, and being based on official data. In particular, the portal will reflect the results achieved by the Department for Supervision of Criminal Proceedings in relation to crimes committed in ...Ukraine has not yet received Iran’s report on shooting down UIA plane
24.12.2020
The Iranian side has repeatedly assured of completion of a report on the January 8 crash of UIA’s flight PS752 near Tehran, but Ukraine has not received any documents.“We have repeatedly heard from the Iranian side that the report is ready, that the translation is being completed. I have been hearing these words almost every week for the last two months, but there are still no documents. According to the Chicago Convention, if the technical investigation is not completed within ...Europol uncovered network dedicated to money laundering for russian mafia
21.12.2020
The investigation began in 2013 when the police detected that the russian mafia had intensified its activities in Spain, using it as an entry point for the money laundering of criminal organizations from the former Soviet Union, policia.es reported.Criminals made use of the enormous amounts of money that they brought to Spain to corrupt and infiltrate public institutions. The organized criminal groups, whose criminal activities include murder, extortion, drug trafficking, arms, human trafficking, and corporate raids, have multiple branches throughout ...WADA dissapointed that russia banned from sporting events only for 2 years
20.12.2020
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) acknowledges the ruling today by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to declare the russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) for a period of two years and to impose significant consequences. This decision confirms in large part the recommendation made in November 2019 by WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC), which was unanimously accepted by the Agency’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 9 December 2019.Today’s CAS ruling is a clear endorsement of WADA’s ...EU supports the initiative of Crimean Platform – german ambassador
17.12.2020
The creation of a Crimean Platform will help keep the issue of de-occupation of Crimea high on the international agenda. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen stated this during the strategic discussion “Diplomacy 2021: government priorities, expectations of society”, ukrinform.net reports.“Germany, as well as the entire European Union, supports the Ukrainian idea of the Crimean Platform. After all, we believe that it is very important to keep the issue of Crimea high ...Ukraine to get $250 million in US military aid
14.12.2020
The U.S. House of Representatives adopted by overwhelming majority the 2021 defense policy bill which provides for sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and security assistance to Ukraine, writes ukrinform.net.The document was supported by 335 congresspersons, 78 lawmakers voted against, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.The bill has already been passed in separate versions by the House of Representatives and the Senate and unified into a single document to be re-approved by both houses of the U.S. Congress.The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act ...The World Bank approved $300 million loan to help protect low-income Ukrainians
14.12.2020
The World Bank approved on December 11 a $300 million loan to help “prevent around 1 million Ukrainians from falling into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to the Bank’s press release. As reported, it is the second Additional Financing under this Project, after $150 million were approved on April 30, 2020.It is mentioned that the loan is designed to help Ukrainians who have lost their jobs or income sources because of the pandemic to get “fast cash transfers”.“World Bank ...Ukrainian AI startup Reface gets 5.5 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz
11.12.2020
Reface, a swap-face app created by Ukrainian developers, has raised $5.5 million of funding from the American Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm and several business angels, according to the representatives of the startup, writes ain.ua.It is noted that Reface plans to spend $5.5 million of funding on the new social platform for content personalization through machine learning. According to Dima Shvets, co-founder and CBO of Reface, the money and Andreessen Horowitz’s network of contacts will also help them establish ...Funded by international banks, Ukrainian post will start to build new sorting hubs in 2021
11.12.2020
Ukrainian national post, Ukrposhta, plans to start building 600,000 square meters of mail and package sorting centers in 2021, according to Igor Suhodubovsky, head of Construction for the company.He revealed the state post plans at the logistics conference held on December 8.In particular, Ukrposhtaplans to build 62 depots and eight sorting hubs. The hubs will be based in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, and Pokrovsk (Donetsk region).“At the first stage of the project, it is planned to build four ...It’s necessary to create coalition of countries to counter russia’s information aggression
10.12.2020
russia promotes itself in terms of the liberation of Europe from Nazism, denies its involvement in World War II as an ally on Germany’s side, and defines the Soviet Union’s seizure of territories then under Polish control as a legitimate step, Anton Drobovych, Head of the Institute of National Remembrance, said in an interview with ukrinform.ua.“At the same time, russians are imprisoning historians and human rights activists who study the legacy of totalitarianism.They persecute and hinder the academic careers of people who study ...Ukraine to launch English-language course on history, culture, and identities
09.12.2020
The Ukrainian Institute, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, and the studio of online education EdEra have developed the first online course about Ukraine in English – «Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities», writes ui.org.ua.The course is aimed at guiding the listeners through the thousand years of Ukrainian history starting from Kyivan Rus’ to the declaration of independence.According to the Ukrainian Institute, the course will help to get the basic knowledge about Ukrainian history and culture, as well as break the stereotypes ...UIA plane crash: Iran hasn’t provided Ukrainian investigators with case files and evidence
08.12.2020
The Ukrainian investigators have not received the files and evidence in the case of the downing of the UIA flight PS752 which Iran promised to present, writes ukrinform.net.“So far, the investigations in Ukraine and Iran go separate ways, although both sides are interested in the impartial investigation into the downing of the Ukrainian plane. And the improper implementation of the agreements reached does not give us an opportunity to talk about the next date of bilateral talks. It makes no ...
