Excerpts from the most important news on Ukraine
Capital investment in Ukraine’s economy shrank by 30%
13.09.2020
Capital investment in Ukraine’s economy shrank by 30% in the first half of the year, compared to January-June 2019, according to the State Statistics Service.In particular, UAH 63.26 billion was attracted to industry (down 37.2%); UAH 20.68 billion to construction (down 22.9%); UAH 14.54 billion to agriculture, forestry and fisheries (down 44.5%); UAH 13.31 billion to wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (down 32.5%); UAH 8.93 billion to transport, warehousing, postal and courier activities (down ...US democrats want to sanction russians over bounties for US troops
11.09.2020
Senate Democrats introduced a bill to that would require Trump to impose sanctions on russian officials or entities that are involved in offering bounties for attacks on US troops to the Taliban.Senators said they introduce the legislation because of the “Trump administration’s failure” to respond to reports of possible russian involvement in paying militants in Afghanistan for killing coalition troops there.The bill is supposed to oblige Trump to impose sanctions on Vlaidmir putin or any other person who “offered, ordered, ...Cryptocurrency is a global phenomenon and Ukraine is ahead of the curve
10.09.2020
Ukraine beats russia, China, and others in adoption metrics according to new research from Chainalysis.The Global Crypto Adoption Index is made up of four metrics, which we’ll explain in detail below. We rank all 154 countries according to each of those four metrics, take the geometric mean of each country’s ranking in all four, and then normalize that final number on a scale of 0 to 1 to produce the overall rankings.The closer the country’s final score is to ...Ukraine and Turkey to create “strategic alliance”
06.09.2020
Ukraine and Turkey have reached the level of partnership, which allows discussing the creation of a strategic alliance between the two countries in the defense industry.Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Industries Oleh Urusky said this in an exclusive comment to Ukrinform following a meeting with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on August 27.“We have reached such a level of strategic partnership that now we can talk about a strategic alliance of our defense and industrial sectors ...russian occupation forces set on fire steppes of Donbas
06.09.2020
InformNapalm, the international intelligence community, brought to the attention social media posts illustrating the subversive actions of the russian occupation forces.Sveta SVETIKOVA, a local resident of Stanychno-Luhansky region writes on Facebook:So much for September 2!On September 2, 2014, russia fired at us with all kinds of heavy fire from its territory, and today #2_September_2020, everything is on fire.It started yesterday in a gray zone behind a demolished school building (many “thanks” for the withdrawal of troops), and today there is ...PayPal terminated accounts linked to russian influence operations
06.09.2020
PayPal has terminated accounts linked to russian influence operation that is said to have paid US and British writers for content aimed at sowing discord in the West.Earlier, Facebook has removed three networks of accounts, Pages and Groups. Two of them — from russia and the US — targeted people outside of their country.Since 2017, Facebook claims to have removed over 100 networks worldwide for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior, including ahead of major democratic elections.Fitch affirms Ukraine at B
06.09.2020
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘B’ with a Stable Outlook.It is noted that the ratings of Ukraine reflect its credible macroeconomic policy framework that had lowered inflation and narrowed fiscal deficits prior to the coronavirus shock, and a record of multilateral support.“The coronavirus shock has at least temporarily reversed Ukraine’s improvements made in recent years in terms of a declining debt burden, normalization of growth prospects after the 2014-2015 geopolitical and economic ...Pompeo warned Zelensky of “malign” Chinese investment
05.09.2020
The United States has raised with Ukraine the issue of “malign” Chinese investment in the country.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought up the issue as he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone on August 26, the State Department’s spokesperson Morgan Ortagus reported. Read also Ukraine prepares to snub China in aerospace deal with U.S. help – Forbes “Secretary Pompeo raised U.S. concerns regarding malign PRC investment in Ukraine, including Beijing’s efforts to ...China and Ukraine have agreed to increase bilateral trade
04.09.2020
Ukraine and China have agreed to continue increasing trade in goods and services, exploring ways to liberalize trade, and identifying joint projects in the fields of agribusiness, infrastructure, energy, and energy conservation, the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine has reported.According to the report, these issues were discussed during a video conference between Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture and Ukraine’s Trade Representative Taras Kachka and Vice Minister of Commerce and ...It is not the time for another russia reset
22.08.2020
The signers of the open letter that call to “rethink” America’s russian policy require a forceful response. We agree that relations between russia and U.S are in a poor state, but we disagree strongly about the reasons what we should in response, write 33 American foreign-policy experts for politico.com.The experts strongly believe that now is not – as the letter’s authors suggest – the time for another reset with russia. While actions of Vladimir putin pose a threat to American ...Ukraine ranked first for public procurement transparency
21.08.2020
Ukraine ranked first in a ranking of 39 Eastern European and developing countries for public procurement transparency by the Transparent Public Procurement Rating.Following 64 indicators for the Transparency Rating, the authors placed Ukraine at the top with a score of 97%. Poland got 74%, Hungary 67% and the Czech Republic 65%.For the last four years, all government purchases of goods worth more than USD 7,300 have to go through the ProZorro online tendering system.Embracer has acquired 100% of the shares in 4A Games
21.08.2020
Swedish Embracer, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saber Interactive, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the Ukrainian Malta-based game developing studio 4A Games. 4A Games is a top-tier independent AAA PC and Console developer behind the successful Metro franchise and a long-term development partner to the Embracer owned publisher Deep Silver.Through the acquisition, Saber Interactive onboards a reputable team of 150+ people across two studios in Malta and Ukraine as well as best-in-class internally developed and owned First-Person-Shooter ...
