On November 17, 2016 two fancy Ukrainian ladies met at the restaurant in the center of Kyiv. One of them was an assistant of a Ukrainian parliamentarian; another claimed to represent Fujeirah, a company from the United Arab Emirates interested in the extraction and export of Ukrainian amber. The subject of their conversation was how to make changes to a bill to legalize the amber business and end illegal amber mining, which has intensified since Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in 2014.
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People with Ukrainian flags attend National Flag Day celebrations in Kyiv on August 23, a day before 26th anniversary of Ukrainian independence.
