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Lviv airport expects to see passenger traffic increase by 42%
27.11.2019
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.She spoke on the occasion of 2 million passengers using the airport this year. In October, traffic was up 45% over one year ago. Next year, she predicts traffic will increase by 30 to 40%.With direct, year-round flights to 30 different foreign cities, Lviv is served by Ukraine’s big four low ...Kharkiv’s IT industry expanded by one quarter in 2019
27.11.2019
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 pay is $2,025 a month, about six times the regional average. If trends hold up IT will be a $2 billion industry in Kharkiv by 2025.The research was based on the data provided by 30 IT companies located in the region during the survey conducted jointly by Kharkiv IT ...About 500,000 russian citizens were relocated to occupied Crimea
26.11.2019
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 the period of the illegal occupation.“According to human rights organizations, there are about 500,000 people who came to the territory of the peninsula from russia.This is a huge share to the total population of Crimea,” she told RBC-Ukraine on November 26. Tasheva says russian authorities have been concealing actual ...PrivatBank reported $1,7 billion in profits in the first 10 months of this year
26.11.2019
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 the bank was nationalized, the state had to inject $5.5 billion into the bank to stabilize it. According to new central bank numbers, Ukraine’s solvent banks recorded $2.2 billion in profit through October, three times the level of the same period last year.As reported earlier, Kolomoisky claims that he will ...Kolomoisky claims that he will get PrivatBank back soon
24.11.2019
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 the near future,” Kolomoisky told the Kyiv Post on the phone.As reported, EBRD wants to see an end of the mixed signals on PrivatBank.Ukraine commemorates Holodomor victims
23.11.2019
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 2007, Ukrinform reports.In the 20th century, Ukrainians survived three famines – in 1921-1923, 1932-1933, and in 1946-1947. However, the most massive was the Holodomor of 1932-1933 – the genocide of the Ukrainian people, which was carried out by the totalitarian communist regime of the Soviet Union.In November 2006, the Verkhovna ...U.S. Investigating Universities Over russian Donations
23.11.2019
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 russia, China, and Saudi Arabia, rferl.org reports.The Massachusetts university was asked specifically by the U.S. Department of Education for documentation related to contacts with the moscow-based software firm Kaspersky Lab and the Skolkovo Foundation, a moscow-area project that MIT had a multimillion-dollar contract with.The University of Maryland received a ...How the Soviet Regime Oppressed the Ukrainian Language
23.11.2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loqBNh0TvfYRead also: Ukrainian Language Banished From Donbas and Crimeamoscow has run an operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 US election interference for years
23.11.2019
russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points. American intelligence agencies believe moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on russia’s evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations, writes the NYT.russia has engaged in a “long pattern of deflection” to pin blame for its ...Washington and Brussels Can Still Stop Nord Stream 2
23.11.2019
What can be done to stop the physical embodiment of russia’s hybrid influence campaign against Western cohesion? A US-EU double-play, writes Former European Energy Security Advisor in the US Department of State Benjamin L. Schmitt for hir.harvard.edu.Congress can enact the targeted sanctions bills already passed on a nearly unanimous basis by both the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee to stop the project for the foreseeable future. Passage of the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act of 2019 will pause the construction ...Ukraine stands with Hong Kong!
23.11.2019
On the sixth anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, several events were held in Kyiv, but one of them was dedicated to another revolution, which is taking place 7,600 kilometers away from the capital of Ukraine – in Hong Kong.Activists say the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China is trying to counter the movement in support of Hong Kong in Ukraine.https://www.facebook.com/ufhkc/posts/998960950453527?xts%5B0%5D=68.ARARNNt9cxkWivU88uz5wJLnkmQeHmwCrnY9O5UoP3Lmrfw_YFAliAEZUbV_1vHVDoK16uJiMoDlTu1u16PaJ1dO8gY3rjZmj3G5wRrT2S5FWwgY7IBv-WTc4buV2N8BfWTAdLTb7A7SpaNZ78yqDBsDsm94H5pH-VlHhWu1cj5ppFcRHlBDICCQLgeedmUS0R5EzYdVsTXjEalVpuDz3XK8ZrbfdJGp4g1EqE2e9AEG77uXMoTk0vYp4DsyQVMIAKjUEIpi3vJmXGwv-BQ-OWgLZlYMAAd30Yu5SOmfUrypmPcXJnWm5NcyEfUalGl4CTmEarKBLMu6fgOnw72dKsY&tn=-RThe protests in Hong Kong, that began with the outrage over the extradition bill, later escalated to resist ...Swedbank May Have Breached US Sanctions Against russia
23.11.2019
Swedbank AB may have violated U.S. sanctions against russia by facilitating the transfer of $1 million from gun maker Kalashnikov to a U.S. subsidiary in Florida, according to a report by Swedish state broadcaster SVT, the WSJ reports.After russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the U.S. imposed sanctions against companies with ties to the war in Ukraine. One of the companies was russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov.However, production rights were transferred to Kalashnikov USA, an independent company in Florida that is not ...
