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BBC: A billion new trees might not turn Ukraine green

It was an ambitious signal of green intent when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky declared this month that a billion extra trees would be planted …
BBC

Andriy Boytsun: State-Owned Enterprises Weekly

Editor’s Note: This is Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, Issue 33, covering the period of June 19-25, 2021. Corporate governance in …
Andriy Boytsun

Alexei Bayer: The benefits of peace

The roots of the Bolshevik Revolution are in Switzerland. Vladimir Lenin spent considerable time there, living in Geneva, Bern, and Zurich for long …
Alexei Bayer

Selection panel accused of vetoing best candidates for chief anti-graft prosecutor

The commission for choosing the chief anti-corruption prosecutor is facing mounting accusations that it is vetoing the best and most independent …
Oleg Sukhov

Associated Press: UN draft resolution calls for Syrian aid through 2 crossings

UNITED NATIONS — A draft U.N. Security Council resolution circulated on June 25 would authorize the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria across the …
Associated Press

CoinQuora: Ukraine Central Bank asks government to speed up crypto legislation

Ukrainian central bank has asked the country’s government to speed up the legislation for crypto. The National Bank of Ukraine made the request in an …
CoinQuora

Atlantic Council: The top takeaways from Joe Biden’s Europe trip

During Joe Biden’s first visit to Europe as US president, he met with allies at the G7, NATO, and EU-US summits, and sat down one-on-one with Russian …
Atlantic Council

New York Times: US has no explanation for unidentified flying objects

WASHINGTON — The government still has no explanation for nearly all of the scores of unidentified aerial phenomena reported over almost two decades …
New York Times

EuroMaidan Press: The struggle to prevent an environmental catastophe in war-torn Donbas

It’s now the seventh year that Ukraine bears the brunt of hostilities in its east. In this war, some 14,000 were killed, 1.4 million became internal …
EuroMaidan Press

RFE/RL: EU sanctions poised to harm Belarus, help Russia

Fresh EU sanctions are intended to put Belarus’s economic cash cows out to pasture, targeting some of the ostracized country’s most important economic …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UkrInform: Russia-backed separatists continue digging trenches in eastern Ukraine

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) has recorded that the armed formations of the Russian Federation extended previously dug trenches …
UkrInform

Associated Press: Finland sees spike in virus cases from returning soccer fans

HELSINKI — Finnish health authorities have detected a spike in coronavirus cases that has been traced to soccer fans returning from neighboring Russia …
Associated Press

Reuters: FDA adds warning about rare heart inflammation to Pfizer, Moderna COVID shots

June 25 – The U.S. drug regulator on June 26 added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc/BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccine shots to …
Reuters

Associated Press: Victims in Miami condo collapse came from around the world

MIAMI — A Filipino-American who loved to play the piano and her Chilean husband lived on the 10th floor of the building. One flight down were Cuban …
Associated Press

Reuters: Most Belarus potash exports not affected by EU sanctions – analysts

MOSCOW – The European Union’s ban on imports and transit of potash from Belarus will not affect most exports of the crop nutrient from the world’s top …
Reuters

Russia records the highest number of COVID-19 deaths since beginning of year

MOSCOW – Russia has registered 21,665 new cases of COVID-19 for the first time since Jan. 21, along with 619 deaths, the highest daily number since …
Interfax-Ukraine

Half of Ukrainians ready to completely abandon use of cash

Ukrainians are actively switching to non-cash payments – 48% of citizens began to pay cashless more often than a year ago. So, according to a study of …
Interfax-Ukraine

Paul Goble: Stalin’s rating rises in Russia

According to a new Levada Center poll, 60 percent of Russians approve of Stalin, his highest rating ever, significantly fewer blame his repressive …
Paul A. Goble
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